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See [Unfitness].
Fitness, Lack of—See [Accommodation].
Flag, Dishonoring the—See [Patriotism, Lack of].
Flag, Rescuing the—See [Symbols, the Value of].
Flaws—See [Charity].
Flight and Vision—See [Elevation and Vision].
Flight of the Soul—See [Soul Flight].
FLOOD-TIDE, SPIRITUAL
I stood on the coast of England, and looked out over a stretch of oozy slime and ill-smelling mud. There were the barges high and dry, lying on their sides—no matter what cargo they carried or how skilful the captain, they were on the mud. It would have availed them nothing to heave the anchor or hoist the sail. And I thought, What is the remedy? Were it any use for the corporation to pass a by-law that every citizen should bring kettles filled with water, and pour it out upon the stretch of mud?