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Viewed in the light of true philosophy, no less than of Christianity, how base and grovelling does this conception appear! The sublime description of the pagan poet becomes the fitting expression and defence of the very theory it was designed to controvert: Quis pariter coelos omneis convertere? et omneis Ignibus ætheriis terras suffire feraceis? Omnibus inque locis esse omni tempore presto?
And the next day, in the way in which Judas raised his hand with thumb bent back, and by the way in which he looked at Thomas, the same strange question was implied: "Who is deceiving Judas? Who is right?" Does our author refer to the Roman sign of disapprobation, vertere, or convertere, pollicem? Tr.
He began to repeat softly, lessons they had taught him prayers and scraps of hymns, sometimes Latin, sometimes French. Once, after a pause, he began to recite, quite clearly, a Latin Psalm "O Domine, libera animam meam: misericors Dominus et justus; et Deus miseretur.... Convertere, anima mea, in requiem tuam, quia Dominus benefecit tibi"
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