man found a higher ideal than any of these things in the pursuit of truth and the benefit of his fellow-men. If we all go and do likewise, I think there is no fear for the decadence of England. I think that our children and our successors will find themselves in a commonwealth, different it may be from that for which Eliott, and Pym, and Hampden struggled, but one which will be identical in the substance of its aims—great, worthy, and well to live in. 1 (return) [ A Lecture delivered in the Free Trade Hall, November 2nd, 1878.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of William Harvey And The Discovery Of The Circulation Of The Blood, by Thomas H. Huxley