Roscelin was not without his supporters; among them was his contemporary Raimbert of Lille, and what the monk Hériman relates of his doctrine agrees with the statements of the master of Compiègne. Universal substances, says Hériman, are but a breath, which means "eos de sapientium numero merito esse exsufflandos". He merely comments on the saying of Anselm characterized by the same jesting tone: a spiritualium quaestionum disputatione sunt exsufflandi" ("P.L.", 256a), and says that to understand the windy loquacity of Raimbert of Lille one has but to breathe into his hand ("manuque ori admota exsufflans" ""Mon. Germ. Hist."", XIV, 275).