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"He can keep his legs, sir." "Nay, Jacob; how can he keep what are already gone? Even thou speakest strangely upon the water. I see the dangers that surround us, Jacob, yet I am calm: I feel that I have not lived a wicked life `Integer vitae, scelerisque purus, as Horace truly saith, may venture, even as I have done, upon the broad expanse of water. What is it that the boy is providing for us?
I think we will wait awhile before we pour out the Elixir Vitae. To tell the honest truth, I suspect the Master has found out that his formula does not hold water quite so perfectly as he was thinking, so long as he kept it to himself, and never thought of imparting it to anybody else.
Staying with Romanianus, he took his share in all the pleasant things of life, suavitates illius vitae shared the amusements of his host, and only bothered about his pupils when he had nothing better to do. He must have been as little of a grammarian as possible he hadn't the time.
As Seneca excellently saith, "De partibus vitae quisquae deliberat, de summa nemo." And is that, after all, is that the trouble still? Is it, that that characteristic of Elizabeth's time that same thing which Seneca complained of in Nero's, is it that that is not yet obsolete?
As to wine, he already had a tolerable stock; but he increased it by half a hogshead of the best canary he could procure; two casks of malmsey, each containing twelve gallons; a quarter-cask of Malaga sack; a runlet of muscadine; two small runlets of aqua vitae; twenty gallons of aniseed water; and two eight-gallon runlets of brandy.
"You allow, then, that you feel some occasional desire for a more active and animated life?" "Nay," answered Aram; "that is scarcely a fair corollary from my remark. I may, at times, feel the weariness of existence the tedium vitae; but I know well that the cause is not to be remedied by a change from tranquillity to agitation.
And more than once has he given vent to reflections like these: "For him who does not believe as I do from the bottom of my heart that death is a transition from one existence to another, and that we are justified in holding out to the worst of criminals in his dying hour the comforting assurance, mors janua vitae I say that for him who does not share that conviction the joys of this life must possess so high a value that I could almost envy him the sensations they must procure him."
He then added a few drops of chloric ether and ammonia, and some lemon to a real square bottleful of aq. pur. haust., and put a label on it with superhuman evenness, on which was written "The Mixture one tablespoonful three times a day." Uncle Moses watched the preparation of this elixir vitae with the extremest satisfaction.
He was in truth somewhat inclined to like De Stancy; for though the captain had said nothing of any value either on war, commerce, science, or art, he had seemed attractive to the younger man. Beyond the natural interest a soldier has for imaginative minds in the civil walks of life, De Stancy's occasional manifestations of taedium vitae were too poetically shaped to be repellent.
It is on the pedestal of Bacon, not on that of Epicurus, that those noble lines ought to be inscribed "0 tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen Qui primus potuisti, illustrans commoda vitae." In the fifth century Christianity had conquered Paganism, and Paganism had infected Christianity. The Church was now victorious and corrupt.
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