[114] For a curious example of weapons drawn from Galen and used against Vesalius, see _Lewes_, _Life of Goethe_, p. 343, note. For proofs that I have not over-estimated Vesalius, see _Portal_, _ubi supra_. Portal speaks of him as "_le génie le plus droit qu'eut l'Europe_;" and again, "_Vesale me paraît un des plus grands hommes qui ait existé_." [115] See _Sprengel_, _Histoire de la Médecine_, vol. vi., pp. 39-80. For the opposition of the Paris Faculty of Theology to inoculation, see the _Journal de Barbier_, vol. vi., p. 294. For bitter denunciations of inoculation by the English clergy, and for the noble stand against them by Maddox, see _Baron_, _Life of Jenner_, vol. i., pp. 231, 232, and vol. ii., pp. 39, 40. For the strenuous opposition of the same clergy, see _Weld_, _History of the Royal Society_, vol. i., p. 464, note. Also, for the comical side of this matter, see _Nichols's Literary Illustrations_, vol. v., p. 800. [116] For the opposition of conscientious men in England to vaccination, see _Duns_, _Life of Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart._, London, 1873, pp. 248, 249; also, _Baron_, _Life of Jenner_, _ubi supra_, and vol. ii., p. 43; also, _Works of Sir J. Y. Simpson_, vol. ii. [117] See _Duns_, _Life of Sir J. Y. Simpson_, pp. 215-222. [118] _Ibid._, pp. 256-259. [119] _Ibid._, p. 260; also, _Works of Sir J. Y. Simpson_, _ubi supra_. [120] _Morley_, _Life of Palissy the Potter_, vol. ii., pp. 315, _et seq._ [121] _Audiat_, _Vie de Palissy_, p. 412. _Cantu_, _Hist. Universelle_, vol. xv., p. 492. [122] For ancient beliefs regarding giants, see _Leopardi_, _Saggio_ _sopra gli errori popolari_, etc., chapter xv. For accounts of the views of Mazurier and Scheuchzer, see _Büchner_, _Man in Past, Present, and Future_, English translation, pp. 235, 236. For Increase Mather's views, see _Philosophical Transactions_, xxiv., 85. For similar fossils sent from New York to the Royal Society as remains of giants, see _Weld_, _History of the Royal Society_, vol. i., p. 421. For Father Torrubia and his _Gigantologia Española_, see _D'Archiac_, _Introduction à l'Étude de la Paléontologie stratiographique_, Paris, 1864, p. 202. For admirable summaries, see _Lyell_, _Principles of Geology_, London, 1867; _D'Archiac_, _Géologie et Paléontologie_, Paris, 1866; _Pictet_, _Traité de Paléontologie_, Paris, 1853; _Vezian_, _Prodrome de la Géologie_, Paris, 1863; _Haeckel_, _History of Creation_, New York, 1876, chapter iii. [123] See _Voltaire_, _Dissertation sur les Changements arrivés dans notre Globe_; also, _Voltaire_, _Les Singularités de la Nature_, chapter xii., near close of vol. v. of the Didot edition of 1843; also, _Jevons_, _Principles of Science_, vol. ii., p. 328.