text: " I would rather think that there are myriads of beings of higher nature than ourselves whose passage is [Greek: hoste noema] and whose home is ubiquity; and such as these may have their missions to us and may sometimes take the dying breath of father or of brother in far-off seas and instinct with and maintaining in themselves made visible that poor remnant of life stand at a moment at the bedside of beloved relatives even in most distant lands and give to each a blessed interchange and intelligence