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Harvey affirms the heart (though the foun∣tain of life) yet to be without feeling; which he proves by a Gentleman he had seen, who by an Imposthume had an hole in his side, through which not only the Systole and Dia∣stole of the heart might be discerned, but the heart it self touched with the finger, which yet the Gentleman affirmed that he felt not.
'Tis an argument that such a soul is of emi∣nent and publique conducement, usefull to derive good to others, that is less sensible of private injuries; when those peevish spirits that are intent upon their particular affronts, are taken up with their own to the neglecting of what they might benefit the publick by.