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Quotation from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
“who thought themselves cast into some divine pool of healing; they mended so kindly, and so fast”
New Atlantis, The three days' confinement in the Strangers' House (Project Gutenberg #2434 (Harvard Classics text))
The sick sailors recover under Bensalem's care; the image recalls the pool of Bethesda in John 5.
Citation: "who thought themselves cast into some divine pool of healing; they mended so kindly, and so fast" — Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, The three days' confinement in the Strangers' House (Project Gutenberg #2434 (Harvard Classics text)). (id bacon-new-atlantis-q7)
