Spirit, in mass, is not a living, conscious entity, any more than matter is; but is a finer than gossamer substance, capable, like matter, of becoming organized, and growing into a living enrobement of the soul-enrobement of that which constitutes the on-living man through all changes of Vestiture.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
Like every verse writer of his time Oscar Wilde had felt the wondrous influence of Rossetti, and no finer tribute to the painter could be written than the lines- "All the World for him A gorgeous coloured Vestiture must wear, And Sorrow take a purple diadem, Or else be no more Sorrow, and Despair Gild its own thorns, and Pain, like Adon, be Even in Anguish beautiful; such is the empery which Painters held."
"Oscar Wilde"
Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
These substances evaporate rapidly and do not appreciably injure the Vestiture of the insects.
"Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects"
C. V. Riley