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Two dead bodies can not make a living one; a body without a soul is only a cadaver and she has no soul." Gerfaut sat motionless for some time with his face buried in his hands; suddenly he raised his head and burst into harsh laughter. "Enough of this soaring in the clouds!" he exclaimed; "let us come down to earth again.
"Deep through," said the doctor, communing with himself. "Carries his trunk gran'ly. Splendid creatuah splendid! Have him? O' co'se she'll have him! What woman wouldn't? What a cadaver! What a subjeck " "Good God! my dear sir!" said the judge. "Really!" Meantime the dingy little car was trundling down the wide, sleepy street, both driver and mules now fallen half asleep again.
"Bowanee makes corpses which rot in the ground. The Society makes corpses which walk about." "Ah, yes! Perinde ac cadaver they were the last words of our great saint, Ignatius de Loyola. But who is this Bowanee?" "Bowanee is to the Society what a child is to a man," replied the Asiatic, with growing excitement. "Glory to the Company glory! Were my father its enemy, I would kill my father.
The practice of dissection was introduced on a large scale. That of the cadaver of an elephant occupied several sessions, and was of such interest that the monarch himself was a spectator.
The doctrine of passive and absolute obedience, the principal tool in the hands of the Jesuits, as summed up in these terrible words of the dying Loyola that every member of the order should be in the hands of his superiors as a dead body 'perinde ad cadaver'.
His boldness and originality were exceptional, and his success was no doubt due in some degree to his constant practice throughout his life of performing every novel and important operation upon a cadaver before operating upon the living subject. To describe in detail the operations which he originated would be too technical for such a book as this, but many of them were of the first importance.
Horror increased when he became thoroughly convinced that he was alone with the cadaver. Whence came that chuckle? Surely not from the lips of this pallid thing near the window. His brain reeled. His stiff lips parted as if to cry out but no sound issued forth.
After death the cadaver was opened and 14 corroded knives were found in the stomach, some of the handles being partly digested; two were found in the pelvis and one in the abdominal cavity. Pare recalls the instance of a shepherd who suffered distressing symptoms after gulping a knife six inches long. Afterward the knife was abstracted from his groin.
The man who sat was the chief of the Red Bones. In his first words to the visitors the old interpreter revealed that the name of the Red Bone ruler was Umanuh. And whatever the name may have signified in the language of the Red Bones, its Tupi definition fitted with disagreeable precision. For Umanuh was a living cadaver.
In age, we have knowledge and prudence without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion. No. 197. Cujus vulturis hoc erit cadaver? MART. Lib. vi. Ep. lxii. 4. Say, to what vulture's share this carcase falls?
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