24/28 I say, that what is limitless is alone divine, that there was neither wall nor road in Eden, that those who walked, there lost and found their way just as we did, and that all the gain from the Fall was that we had a wagon to ride in. I do not think, either, that even the horses doubted whether this last was any advantage. The antidote survives the bane. Soon the coarser plantain, the "white man's footstep," shall take its place. Of some of the brightest flowers an Indian girl afterwards told me the medicinal virtues. |