The mere announcement of your project has cast a good deal of trouble into certain consciences.

They fear that the success of an undertaking of this kind may strike a blow at the faith, may, in a word, scandalize many tranquil spirits.

For, if M.Fougas is dead, of course it is because God has so willed it.

Aren't you afraid of acting contrary to the will of God, in resuscitating him ?" "No, Monsieur: for I am sure not to resuscitate Fougas if God has willed it otherwise; God permits a man to catch the fever, but God also permits a doctor to cure him.

God permitted a brave soldier of the Emperor to be captured by four drunken Russians, condemned as a spy, frozen in a fortress and desiccated under an air-pump by an old German.