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The Promised Land

CHAPTER VI
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The earth was my mother, the earth is my teacher.

I am a dutiful pupil: I listen ever with my ear close to her lips.

It seems to me I do not know a single thing that I did not learn, more or less directly, through the corporal senses.

As long as I have my body, I need not despair of salvation.
FOOTNOTES: [2] A piece of parchment inscribed with a passage of Scripture, rolled in a case and tacked to the doorpost.

The pious touch or kiss this when leaving or entering a house..


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