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This high, pure emotion, which is also an intense activity of the spirit, would seem so to etherealise the creature that instantly the delicate soul is able to escape her loosened bonds and flies towards her home, filled with ineffable, incomparable delight, praising, singing, and joying in her Lord and God until the body can endure no more, and swiftly she must return to bondage in it.
I know naught of the chemistry of colours, nor why this yellow-green medium should so clarify and etherealise the atmosphere. But was ever clear sunset half so affecting? This tinted, luminous cloud had bewitched the commonplace, converting familiar surroundings into fairyland itself. If all the world's a stage, this truly was one of the rarest transformation scenes. What was about to happen?
She should have enough to purify and etherealise her soul, but not enough to refine away her heart, and raise her above all human sympathies.’ ‘And am I above all human sympathies?’ said I.
"I mean," added Joe "mightn't his duty be a painful one?" "Yes. But I think that would rather etherealise than destroy the light. Behind the sorrow would spring a yet greater light from the very duty itself. I have expressed myself badly, but you will see what I mean. To be frank with you, Joe, I do not see that light in your face. Therefore I think something must be wrong with you.