At every step that our bearers took, the icy mass of putridity before me, shook togethermy flesh creeps even now at the recollection.

This water, although of a dirty and thick appearance, is said to possess the valuable quality of resisting putridity for years.

If thou wouldst be perfect in the greatness of thy way, thou must learn to live in the fire of thy own divine nature turned against thy conscious self: learn to smile content in that, and thou wilt out-satan Satan in the putridity of essential meanness, yea, self-satisfied in very virtue of thy shame, thou wilt count it the throned apotheosis of inbred honor.