The youth are to "dwell in the land of health, amid fair sights and sounds; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, will visit the eye and ear, like a healthful breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul even in childhood into harmony with the beauty of reason."
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
This one she had on now was something that brightened her dull complexion, and brought out the best effect of her eyes and mouth, and seemed the effluence of her personal dash and grace.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
They may possibly be believed again on grounds of philosophy and historic evidence, not as portents, not as violations of law, not as the basis of a logical argument, but as the natural effluence and outcome of a soul like that of Jesus, into which a supernatural influx of light and life had descended.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke