4 But in order that thou mayst be inwardly at ease in respect to thy wish, lo, here is Statius, and I call on him, and pray 30 that he be now the healer of thy wounds.” ”If the eternal view to him I explain,” replied Statius, “where thou art present, 33 let it excuse me that to thee I cannot make denial.” Then he began, “If my words, son, thy mind regards and receives, a light 36 for thee they will be unto the ‘How,’ which thou askest. Perfect blood, which is never drunk up by the thirsty veins, but remains 39 like the food which thou removest from the table, takes in the heart of all the human members a virtue informative, as being that 42 which to become them goes through the veins. Digested still further, it descends to the part whereof it is more becoming to be silent than to speak; and from there, after45 wards, it drops upon another’s blood in the natural vessel. There meet one and the other together; the one ordained to be passive, and the other to be active 48 because of the perfect place wherefrom it is pressed out; and, conjoined with the former, the latter begins to operate, first by coagulating, and then it quickens 51 that to which for its own material it gives consistency. Having become a soul the active virtue, like that of a plant (in so far different 54 that this is on the way, and that already arrived),
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