Aeronautics and nautics are an effort toward angelhood.
Men can walk water who are willing to take a boat for an overshoe. So
we may air when we get the right shoe. Browning gives us a delicious
sense of being amphibian as we swim. And the butterfly, that winged
rather than rooted flower, looking down upon us as we float, begets in
us a great longing to be polyphibian. We have innate tendencies toward
a life of finer surroundings, and we shall take to them with zest, if
we are not too much of the earth earthy. We were designed for this
finer life. We do take to it even now in the days of our
deterioration, not to say depravity. The great marvels of the world
are not so much in matter as in man. We were meant to be more
sensitive to finer influences than we are. We are far more so than we
think. Take your child into the street. Another child coughs at a
window on the other side, and your child has three months of terrific
whooping-cough. All such diseases are taken by homeopathic doses of
the millionth dilution. Many people feel "in their bones" the coming
of storms days before their arrival. We knew a man who ate honey with
delight till he was twenty-five years old, and then could do so no
more. This peculiarity he inherited from his father. One man has an
insatiable desire for drink because some ancestor of his, back in the
third or fourth generation, bequeathed him that curse.
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