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EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS
THE CIRCULATION
OF THE BLOOD
THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
HISTORY ❦ CLASSICAL
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
ESSAYS ❦ ORATORY
POETRY & DRAMA
BIOGRAPHY
ROMANCE
New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND
VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
However much the renewal of classical learning inthe fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries mayhave furthered the development of letters and of art, ithad anything but a favourable influence on the progressof science. The inter