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life. He ends by a reference to an incident already 

 chronicled in the De Vita Propria, 1 how he escaped 

 death or injury from a falling mass of masonry by 

 crossing the street in obedience to an impulse he could not 

 explain, and speculates why God, who was able to save 

 him on this occasion with so little trouble, should have 

 let him rush on and court the overwhelming stroke 

 which ultimately laid him low. 



1 De Vita Propria, ch. xxx. p. 78. 



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