[The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning]@TWC D-Link bookThe Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II CHAPTER XI 79/329
For two years and a half he has had recourse to no other remedy, and it has not yet failed to produce its effect.
How do you unbelievers account for that? At the same time, I never would think of using it in any active or inflammatory malady, and where a sudden revolution or _scosso_ is required from the remedial agent. We find poor Mr.Landor tolerably amenable to Wilson, and well in health, though he can't live more than three months, he says, and except when Robert keeps him soothed by quoting his own works to him, considers himself in a very wretched condition, which is a sort of satisfaction too.
He is a man of great genius, and we owe him every attention on that ground.
Otherwise I confess to you he is to me eminently unsympathetic.... If -- -- 'turns Catholic,' as you say, on the ground of the organisation of certain institutions, it will be a proof of very peculiar ignorance. This power of organisation is _French_, and not Catholic.
You look for it in vain in Rome, for instance, except where the organisation comes from France.
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