"Spiritual substance! you might as well talk about immaterial stone." Poiret.

"Don't interrupt; let him go on." Phellion [continuing].

"Quest .-- Whence comes the soul?
"Ans .-- From God, who created it of a nature one and indivisible; the destructibility thereof is, consequently, not conceivable, and he hath said--" Poiret [amazed].

"God said ?" Phellion.

"Yes, monsieur; tradition authorizes the statement." Fleury [to Poiret].