The Human Soul Is Already in the Present Life

The author of fra has claimed for romance the ancient license accorded to poetry and painting. The adventurer sets out for the tin islands, or casiterides, at a date before the roman conquest of england. He dies and lives anew many times, but preserves his personal identity under the garb of half a dozen transmigrations. A briton in ish days, the slave consort of his druid wife, he passes by daring but convenient inventiveness into the person of a centurion in the household of a noble roman lady. And learns from the abbot that he has lain there in the odour of sanctity, according to indisputable church records