“She does not belong by rights to this world at all, but to some other planet, probably Mercury. Her proclivity to her true sphere destroys all the natural influence which this orb would otherwise possess over her corporeal frame. She cares for nothing here. There is no relation between her and this world.” — George MacDonald, The Light Princess
This is not the perspective of MacDonald; these are words through Kopy-Keck the spiritualist as a comedic foil to Hum-Drum the materialist, both of which are foil to the actual solution. Kopy-Keck resumes:
“She must therefore be taught, by the sternest compulsion, to take an interest in the earth as the earth. She must study every department of its history–its animal history; its vegetable history; its mineral history; its social history; its moral history; its political history, its scientific history; its literary history; its musical history; its artistical history; above all, its metaphysical history. She must begin with the Chinese dynasty and end with Japan. But first of all she must study geology, and especially the history of the extinct races of animals-their natures, their habits, their loves, their hates, their revenges. She must–” Which of course does not solve anything for a girl who has lost her gravity.