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"Mademoiselle," he said as he wished us farewell, "you are going on a long journey, and I on a much longer, but I know that wherever you are there will be the house of Thelema." And as I helped him to pull his domino over his shoulders he whispered in my ear: "Beati qui in domino moriuntur."
'Think of what a pest is love. How many have died of it. Pyramus, Thisbe, Dido, Medea, Croesus, Callirhoe, Theagines the philosopher ... Consider what writes Gordonius: "Prognosticatio est talis: si non succuratur iis aut in maniam cadunt: aut moriuntur." Unless lovers be succoured either they fall into a madness, either they die or grow mad.
And this, of course, is only one of a score of ways in which the leucocytes literally pro patria moriuntur. Our whole alimentary canal is continually patrolled by their squadrons, poured into it by the tonsils above and Peyer's patches below; if it were not for them we should probably be poisoned by the products of our own digestive processes.
In every age the Master of life and death, who is kinder as well as wiser than we are, has transplanted to heaven, young, earth's sweetest flowers. I ask your sympathy, then, for their rare constancy and pure affection, and their cruel separation by a vile heresy in the bosom of the Church; but not your pity for their early but happy end. 'Beati sunt qui in Domino moriuntur.
Ib. p. 340. 'Qui nude tantum hominem eum dicunt ex Joseph generatum moriuntur. 'Non nude hominem' not a mere man do I hold Jesus to have been and to be; but a perfect man and, by personal union with the Logos, perfect God.
It is comforting to the members of our profession, in which the average of life is usually so low, to be able to point out exceptions. It has been aptly said of physicians in general: "Aliis inserviendo consumuntur; aliis medendo moriuntur," or "In serving others they are consumed; in healing others they are destroyed." Recent Instances of Longevity.
Oh! if it could but end in death!... Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur! ... It was no good; it was cowardly to think in this fashion. After all, God was God He takes up the isles as a very little thing. Percy took out his office book, found Prime and St. Sylvester, signed himself with the cross, and began to pray.
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