“I think not,” Virginius dissented. “It is the great medicine, the simple, harmless cure, whose effect is so sure that it lasts through life, even though it be but in the memory.”
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“One does not need to taste it once a week or once a month, as the case may be, its effects on the earth will last a lifetime. And here in heaven it becomes a pleasant, invigorating, everyday drink, surrounded by no false evaporation of mystery.”
“I have often wondered what Christ’s object was in instituting the Last Supper.”
“Christ or Jesus?”
“You recognise them as separate?”
“Yes,” he answered. “But the stronger power enveloped the lesser, so that the frailty of the simple man was hidden by the working of an untamable spirit, though they mingled.”
Then he took up the thread of our previous conversation.