{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>If, therefore, the salamander lives in fire, as naturalists<a id=\"FNanchor_858_858\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_858_858\">[858]</a>\r\nhave recorded, and if certain famous mountains of Sicily have\r\nbeen continually on fire from the remotest antiquity until\r\nnow, and yet remain entire, these are sufficiently convincing\r\nexamples that everything which burns is not consumed. As\r\nthe soul, too, is a proof that not everything which can suffer\r\npain can also die, why then do they yet demand that we\r\nproduce real examples to prove that it is not incredible that\r\nthe bodies of men condemned to everlasting punishment may\r\nretain their soul in the fire, may burn without being consumed,\r\nand may suffer without perishing? For suitable properties\r\nwill be communicated to the substance of the flesh by\r\nHim who has endowed the things we see with so marvellous\r\nand diverse properties, that their very multitude prevents our\r\nwonder. For who but God the Creator of all things has given\r\nto the flesh of the peacock its antiseptic property? This\r\nproperty, when I first heard of it, seemed to me incredible;\r\nbut it happened at Carthage that a bird of this kind was\r\ncooked and served up to me, and, taking a suitable slice of\r\nflesh from its breast, I ordered it to be kept, and when it had\r\nbeen kept as many days as make any other flesh stinking, it\r\nwas produced and set before me, and emitted no offensive<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_418\">[Pg 418]</a></span>\r\nsmell. And after it had been laid by for thirty days and\r\nmore, it was still in the same state; and a year after, the\r\nsame still, except that it was a little more shrivelled, and\r\ndrier. Who gave to chaff such power to freeze that it preserves\r\nsnow buried under it, and such power to warm that it\r\nripens green fruit?</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-659"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"507455410af18f965fc2a0d6644f72cccb5318ca69a9a7e18aceec7651ce1d01","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_858_858","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_858_858","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_858_858\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_858_858\"><span class=\"label\">[858]</span></a> Aristotle does not affirm it as a fact observed by himself, but as a popular\r\ntradition (<i>Hist. anim.</i> v. 19). Pliny is equally cautious (<i>Hist. nat.</i> xxix. 23).\r\nDioscorides declared the thing impossible (ii. 68).—<span class=\"smcap\">Saisset.</span></p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_858_858","text_sha256":"b18786b8bfed726d327bdb824e213b4d45647beaf0760824aa3586d16fa19ca3","verified":false,"work_id":null}