text:  Inquirer whosoever! A problem lies large before us--complicated abstruse even yet--suitably to the subject--a delicate one! To hunt down an elusive word and a more elusive notion! It is to find a set of determinings which laid together shall form a circle fitted to confine that inconfinable spirit--a Fairy; or if you better like plain English to find the terms needed for signifying describing expounding the Thought which lurking as at the bottom of your mind under a crowd of thoughts rises up in all circumstances to meet and answer the name----a fairy; the Thought which when all accidental and unessential attributes liable to be attracted to the fairy essence have been stripped away remains; the _substrate_ absolute essential _generic_ notion therefore--a fairy; that Thought which whencesoever acquired and held howsoever enables you to deal to your satisfaction with proposed fairies acknowledging THIS one frankly;--THIS but for a half-sister; shutting the door upon ANOTHER