The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-09-04
DID SHAKESPEARE ANTICIPATE
HARYEY,S DISCOYERYs

/ DID SHAkESPEARE ANTICIPATE
HARvEY'S DISCONERYs
tion of the Blood.
Editor New York Sun:
SIR-Mr. Ignatius DonnelIy may
have discovered In Shakespeare's plays
q cipher. He may also have discovered
the key To the cipher which has en-
abled him to unlock it's secrets and
learn that the plays really form con.
tinuous history of Elixabeth'sr reign. But
when he puts forth the claim that from
bis cipher he Is enabled definitely tc
establish the face that Bacon was the
actual author of the plays not only
question the claim, but deny Its pos.
sibiIity.
1t was no less Impossible for Bacon
to have been the author of Shakes-
peare's plays than it was for Shake-
speare to have been the author Of the
"Novum Organum' OF the ssDe Aug
mentis," and the evidence OF the pro-
position is to be found In the plays
themselves. It Is SO prominent, SO un-
mistakabjy obvious, that II is surprising
1t has not been presented years since,
and this absurd pretence forever
quieted.
But better late than never. The
recent announcement 0f Mr.. Donnelly
renders the demonstration of the fact
most opportune at this time.
To say nothing of the Inherent Inn
probability that q man who loved or
needed money so much that he could
smart his high Office for gold" would
yet allow another to accumulate q
fortune, achieve fame and establish q
great reputation upon his LAHORE, there
Is, in the very language Of the plays
themselves, indisputable evidence that,
whether they were written or not by
William Shakespeare, the actor and
manager, they could not have been
written by the man to whom the
world owes the science of inductive
Not that Bacon was not mentally
equal to the possibility. He was so
largely endowed In this respect that
he might we'll have found himself fully
equal to any mental task whatever.
But Bacon was, above aud beyond
else, q philosopher, an original
investigator OF the phenomena of
nature, and the first and the most
desire of his mind was that his
pursuits should be crowned by practical
results and benefits to mankind.
IT, then, it can be shown from the
plays that their, author possessed
Of an important physio-
logical and scientific fact, general
of which would necessarily
have contributed greatly TO the we'll
being of mankind and would have
Tended to the ameiioration of human
suffering, it follows by Inevitable con-
sequence that such philosopher as
Bacon could not have conveyed the
of so great discovery by
means OF plays alone, and have ab.
stained studious'y from any reference
10 1t in his serious and important
works expressly devoted to ministers
ing to the comfort, happiness, and
general well.beihg of his kind.
A philosopher SO jealous "for
fruit" as the end of his observations
and Investigations could not possibly
have contented himself with vaguely
in plays q wonderful and
important discovery, and made no
Of 1t in his graver works.
Now the plays show that their au-
hor was such q discoverer, and there
lore Bacon could not have been their
author.
There is abundant evidence scattered
through tho plays that their author had
distinct and positive knowledge of the
Of the blood long before
laid claim 10 have originated
It, and thereby won the grateful recog-
oiiion of all who felt interested in the
science of healing human infirmities.
Shakespeare died in 1916. Harvey
proclaimed his alleged discovery in
1923, and In doing so declared he had
been developing the theory since 1912.
But all Of the plays of Shakespeare
must have been written before 1912,
md therefore Shakespeare must have
been the original discoverer-parti-|
,ularly as the possible circulation of
he blood In the human frame is sug-
,ested in the works of none of his con-
Let us seeif this wonderful discovery
Is not clearly, incontrovertibly set forth
n the plays. In Loves Labor Lost,
admitted to have been ono
If the very first Of the plays, Biron
asserts (Act iv.; scene -:
Why universal plodding prisons up
The nimble spirits in the arteries.
In the Comedy of Errors {Act ";
,cene ~, old Egeon tells us: