I felt a kind of impersonal kinship with them and a joy in that kinship. Beauty of earth and sea and air meant more to me. I was in harmony with it, melted into the universe, lost in it, as one is lost in a canticle of praise, swelling from an unknown crowd in a cathedral. 'Praise ye the Lord, all ye fishes of the sea - all ye birds of the air - all ye children of men - Praise ye the Lord!' Yes, I felt closer to my fellow men too, even in my solitude.