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Water is a Single Substance

May 7th, 2021 | 6 min read

By Benjamin Woollard

Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps (Ps. 148:7)

Water is a single substance. Each and every instantiation of the liquid merges with every other. Each molecule composes the same body, longing for union with its distant members, holding to itself, guided by the same principles. The cycle of evaporation and condensation is the great cycle through which every drop must pass. They fall to live terrestrial lives, swaying in great sheets over the landscape or collecting as luminescent orbs upon the florae. Each portion of water that falls receives its particular features upon descending to the earth; it loses them again as it is distilled, rising vaporous from the scene of its incarnation. It dwells in great migrating unities upon the heavens and falls again to become something new, yet it always retains in itself its basic qualities.

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