Think of our all being bathed in a substance so delicate as to be itself unperceived, yet so dense as to be the carriage to our senses of messages from the world about us! It is never in our way; it does not ask notice; we only know it is there by the good it does us.

And this exquisitely soft, pure, yielding, unseen being, like a beautiful and beneficent fairy, brings us blessings from all around.

It has the skill to wash our blood clean from all foulness.

Its weight keeps us from tumbling to pieces.

It is a reservoir where the waters lie stored, until they fall and gladden the earth.