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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Again, let us consider the wonders of lime; for besides\r\ngrowing white in fire, which makes other things black, and\r\nof which I have already said enough, it has also a mysterious\r\nproperty of conceiving fire within it. Itself cold to the touch,\r\nit yet has a hidden store of fire, which is not at once apparent\r\nto our senses, but which experience teaches us, lies as it were<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_419\">[Pg 419]</a></span>\r\nslumbering within it even while unseen. And it is for this\r\nreason called \"quick lime,\" as if the fire were the invisible\r\nsoul quickening the visible substance or body. But the marvellous\r\nthing is, that this fire is kindled when it is extinguished.\r\nFor to disengage the hidden fire the lime is moistened or\r\ndrenched with water, and then, though it be cold before, it\r\nbecomes hot by that very application which cools what is hot.\r\nAs if the fire were departing from the lime and breathing its\r\nlast, it no longer lies hid, but appears; and then the lime\r\nlying in the coldness of death cannot be requickened, and\r\nwhat we before called \"quick,\" we now call \"slaked.\" What\r\ncan be stranger than this? Yet there is a greater marvel\r\nstill. For if you treat the lime, not with water, but with oil,\r\nwhich is as fuel to fire, no amount of oil will heat it. Now\r\nif this marvel had been told us of some Indian mineral which\r\nwe had no opportunity of experimenting upon, we should\r\neither have forthwith pronounced it a falsehood, or certainly\r\nshould have been greatly astonished. But things that daily\r\npresent themselves to our own observation we despise, not\r\nbecause they are really less marvellous, but because they are\r\ncommon; so that even some products of India itself, remote\r\nas it is from ourselves, cease to excite our admiration as soon\r\nas we can admire them at our leisure.<a id=\"FNanchor_859_859\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_859_859\">[859]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-661"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5302c0ec36964f12e9177ba083cfecfc4ec5aa9c64e333da435badeec19f515d","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_859_859","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_859_859","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_859_859\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_859_859\"><span class=\"label\">[859]</span></a> So Lucretius, ii. 1025:\r\n</p>\n<div class=\"poetry-container\">\n<div class=\"poem\"><div class=\"stanza\">\n<span class=\"i0\">\"Sed neque tam facilis res ulla 'st, quin ea primum<br/></span>\n<span class=\"i0\">Difficilis magis ad credendum constet: itemque<br/></span>\n<span class=\"i0\">Nil adeo magnum, nec tam mirabile quicquam<br/></span>\n<span class=\"i0\">Principis, quod non minuant mirarier omnes<br/></span>\n<span class=\"i0\">Paulatim.\"<br/></span>\n</div></div></div>\n</div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_859_859","text_sha256":"622bba2979d8fee4421b0d7779df3d7fc0f7bacc08a2d555ea8ba884263c0f9e","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_859_859