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Updated: May 13, 2025
But I will not here anticipate the intellectual phases of his life. Already, in spite of myself, I have reversed the order in which I ought to tell the history of this man, who transferred all his activities to thinking, as others throw all their life into action. A strong bias drew his mind into mystical studies. "Abyssus abyssum," he would say. "Our spirit is abysmal and loves the abyss.
He writes with human nerves upon parchment made of human tissue, and "abyssum evocat abyssum," from the darkness wherein he moves. Among other things, Dostoievsky's insight is proved by the profound separation he indicates between "morality" and "religion."
Zelie nursed her children herself when they came, cooked, made her flowers, and kept the house. There was something very touching in this happy and laborious mediocrity. Feeling that Minard truly loved her, Zelie loved him. Love begets love, it is the abyssus abyssum of the Bible. The poor man left his bed in the morning before his wife was up, that he might fetch provisions.
The three Vervelles bloomed out in this studio, which they were now accustomed to consider as one of their residences; there was to them an inexplicable attraction in this clean, neat, pretty, and artistic abode. Abyssus abyssum, the commonplace attracts the commonplace.
"Pray for me then, Sir John," said Master Richard. Then we kissed one another, and he was gone without another word along the white road. How Master Richard fared: how he heard Mass in Saint Pancras' Church: how he came to Westminster: and of his colloquy with the Ankret Abyssus abyssum invocat: in voce cataractarum tuarum. Deep calleth on deep: at the noise of Thy flood-gates. Ps. xli. 8.
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