and storm, an unswerving guide. Now Columbus can steer for any new
world.

Does not this seem like a spiritual force? Lodestone can impart its
qualities to hard steel without the impairment of its own power. There
is a giving that does not impoverish, and a withholding that does not
enrich.

Wherever there is need there is supply. The proper search with
appropriate faculties will find it. There are yet more things in
heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.




THE FAIRY GRAVITATION

The Germans imagine that they have fairy kobolds, sprites, and gnomes
which play under ground and haunt mines. I know a real one. I will
give you his name. It is called "Gravitation." The name does not
sound any more fairylike than a sledge hammer, but its nature and work
are as fairylike as a spider's web. I will give samples of his helpful
work for man.

In the mountains about Saltzburg, south of Munich, are great thick beds
of solid salt. How can they get it down to the cities where it is
needed? Instead of digging it out, and packing it on the backs of
mules for forty miles, they turn in a stream of water and make a little
lake which absorbs very much salt--all it can carry. Then they lay a
pipe, like a fairy railroad, and gravitation carries the salt water