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 282 Three Lives of Saints:

On trees, on stones, on beasts also : wherever it may cleave. I wot well, on my foretop : it has well oft done so.

Wells come of great water : and especially from the sea Thro' veins all under the Earth : and to the sea go again.

The moon causes tides Only the 7th part of the

earth is habitable Each living thing is made of the

four elements — earth, water, air and fire Four char- acters of man, according as one or other of the four elements predominates

In each man three souls be : but not all alike good

As I told you before of three balls ; if ye it understood

In the lowest ball : whereof the liver springs

There comes one-manner soul : at the beginning as it were a kind

of life : that sends nourishment To the limbs all about : and bringeth on their growth. A like natured soul to this : is in each thing that grows In trees and in grass also

The second soul has its seat in the heart.

That soul hath each thing : that evil may overgo Beast and fowl and fish also : worm and others more.

Therefore when a man dies these souls die also. Yet there is a third soul : that all their master is. This soul takes its dwelling : and remains I-vvis, In the child's brain on high ; that his highest limb is. This soul lasts ever : and ne dies never more.

If the immortal soul goes to Joy : the other two mortal souls betoken that fact by leaving the limbs and features and the hue respectively of a fair colour after death.

This, then, is the theory of the world, the natural science^ as we should now say, of that period. The Professor Ray Lankester of that day, had he written papers on Science