The substance will indeed remain, but in another form, another glory, another power " (De diligendo Deo, c. 10).
In India it is known as Nurma or Deo cotton, and is usually stated to be employed for making thread for the turbans of the priests.
Non eis sacerdotes offerunt, absit, Deo praestantur.
How he built a church and got into trouble in so doing at Ferney, how he put "Deo erexit Voltaire" on it (1760-61) and obtained a relic from the pope for his new building, how he entertained a grand-niece of Corneille, and for her benefit wrote his well-known "commentary" on that poet, are matters of interest, but to be passed over briefly.
Deo Prayag, their point of junction, is a celebrated place of pilgrimage, as is also Gangotri, the source of the parent stream.
