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exhortation to others to imitate those benefactors, and to contribute their endeavours for the advancement of the Society, according to the example of those benefactors; and with an exhortation to the fellows and members of the said College to search and study out the Secrets of Nature by way of experiment; and also for the honour of the profession to continue in mutual love and affection among themselves, without which neither the dignity of the College can be preserved, nor yet particular men receive that benefit by their admission into the College which they might expect; ever remembering that concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia magnae dilabuntur.
It will be seen from this quotation that there is no obligation on the Orator to commemorate Harvey alone, or at all, except as one of the many benefactors of the College; and inasmuch as the material benefits of the gifts conferred by Linacre and Caius, by Harvey and Hamey, and by the Founders of our College Lectures, are less valuable than the intellectual gifts which have led Fellows of the College since Harvey’s time to search out “the secrets of Nature by way of experiment,” and still less
