That persons of moderate philosophical powers may, when duly educated, make observations which may be used by greater discoverers than themselves, is true. We have examples of such a subordination of scientific offices in astronomy, in geology, and in many other departments. But still, as I have said, a very considerable degree of scientific education is needed even for the subordinate labourers in science; and the more considerable in proportion as science advances further and further; since every advance implies a knowledge of what has already been done, and requires a new precision or generality in the new points of inquiry. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 197: _Œuvres Philosophiques de Bacon, &c._ par M. N. Bouillet, 3 Tomes. _Examen de la Philosophie de Bacon_ (_Œuvres Posthumes_ du Comte J. de Maistre). _Bacon, sa Vie, son Temps, sa Philosophie_, par Charles de Remusat. _Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de François Bacon_, par J. B. de Vaugelles. _Franz Baco von Verulam_, von Kuno Fischer. _The Works of Francis Bacon_, collected and edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath.] [Footnote 198: Note to Aph. xviii.] [Footnote 199: Pref. to the _Parasceue_, Vol. i. p. 382.] CHAPTER XVII. FROM BACON TO NEWTON. 1. _Harvey._--We have already seen that Bacon was by no means the first mover or principal author of the revolution in the method of philosophizing which took place in his time; but only the writer who proclaimed in the most impressive and comprehensive manner, the scheme, the profit, the dignity, and the prospects of the new philosophy. Those, therefore, who after him, took up the same views are not to be considered as his successors, but as his fellow-labourers; and the line of historical succession of opinions must be pursued without special reference to any one leading character, as the principal figure of the epoch. I resume this line, by noticing a contemporary and fellow-countryman of Bacon, Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood. This discovery was not published and generally accepted till near the end of Bacon's life; but the anatomist's reflections on the method of pursuing science, though strongly marked with the character of the revolution that was taking place, belong to a very different school from the Chancellor's. Harvey was a pupil of Fabricius of Acquapendente, whom we noticed among the practical reformers of the sixteenth century. He entertained, like his master, a strong reverence for the great names which had ruled in philosophy up to that time, Aristotle and Galen; and was disposed rather to recommend his own method by exhibiting it as the true interpretation of ancient wisdom, than to boast of its novelty. It is true, that he assigns, as his reason for publishing some of his researches[200], "that by revealing the method I use in searching into things, I might propose to studious men, a new and (if I mistake not) a surer path to the attainment of