possessor can keep within his walls: they overflow the cup-lip of the
coping, to give themselves to the footfarer. The motions aerial, the
sounds, the odours of those imprisoned spaces, are the earnest of a
possession for which is ever growing his power of possessing. In no wise
will such inheritance interfere with the claim of the man who calls them
his. Each possessor has them his, as much as each in his own way is
capable of possessing them. For possession is determined by the kind and
the scope of the power of possessing; and the earth has a fourth
dimension of which the mere owner of its soil knows nothing.

The child of the maker is naturally the inheritor. But if the child try
to possess as a house the thing his father made an organ, will he
succeed in so possessing it? Or if he do nestle in a corner of its case,
will he oust thereby the Lord of its multiplex harmony, sitting regnant
on the seat of sway, and drawing with 'volant touch' from the house of
the child the liege homage of its rendered wealth? To the poverty of
such a child are all those left, who think to have and to hold after the
corrupt fancies of a greedy self.

We cannot see the world as God means it, save in proportion as our souls
are meek. In meekness only are we its inheritors. Meekness alone makes
the spiritual retina pure to receive God's things as they are, mingling
with them neither imperfection nor impurity of its own. A thing so
beheld that it conveys to me the divine thought issuing in its form, is
mine; by nothing but its mediation between God and my life, can anything
be mine. The man so dull as to insist that a thing is his because he has
bought it and paid for it, had better bethink himself that not all the
combined forces of law, justice, and goodwill, can keep it his; while
even death cannot take the world from the man who possesses it as alone
the maker of him and it cares that he should possess it. This man leaves