Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-16

Many writers have gone into the question Of
the probable stature, strength and conhguration
OF our fellow beings in other spheres. Christian
Wolf long ago fixed the height Of the nhabi
tauts of Jupiter at forty feet eight inches. The
Fourierists have more recently imagined kind
OF celestial hierarchy IN which the successive
groups rise one ab0ye.the other, Ia analogy. with
those of the lower universe. into what NJ Re
maud has termed biniyers, trnyers, Quatriniyers
etc The planets themselves have souls. aud
die out, as will do 10 give place to newer
forms Of planetary life Swedenb0rg, every
body knows grew 40 "a mliar with the nhabi
tants OF the several planets in which be was in
the habit OF spending his leisure moments of
spiritual ecstacy, that he has lett Us little find
ont touching the moral and other characteristics
Of our brethren in those sbodes The feelings
with which we, turn. inspire those remote re
latiOns Of 0ufs-tho lively warmth Of Venus the
dignihed calm of Jupiter. the sardonic GOODNESS
of Saturn-are not less matters OF fact aud We.
racity Science. thus interpreted. points TO a
place for souls among those radiant spheres.
Transported among new conditions of existence,
they may contract OF pot forth powers akin TO
those of the happier hcIngs whose lot has been
already cast there, And rs 10 What that lot
may be. IL makes the mouth water To listen TO NJ
Flammarion lecturing us.
In All atmosphere no longer composed of oAy-
gen and azote. what ills of climate may not be
spared those fortunate denzensy The whole
pulmonary apparatus il doubtless modified. ana
with IL the whole system of organic functions,
Instead of the gross aud clumsy plan OF keeping
up the bodily growth aud warmth by food, liquid
and solid-the degrading expedcnt OF borrowing
ior that end the debris of other beings aud
worst OF all, that OF killing and devouring those
endowed with lie, there may be "a system Ul
nourishing atmospheres. composed of elements
nutricious In themselves. and capable of assimi
ation by organs of corresponding ethereal tex
ture. In the general repeal Of laws which belong
20 mans interior state. that Of labor" may
come in for the earliest abolition. and with IL 20
all those vulgar cares, appettes. aud ambitions
/ 90 which 80 much OF the misery aud tRnHi oil
terrestrial lie arc due Nice will never have
arisen. The org I'm of evil will offer no point for
/ philosophers TO wraugo over. tor evil itself will
never have stepped in. Another law" abrogs
tel, or rather never set IN iOTcc, will be that OF
." death"
War and violence, excess and decay being un
known 10 these happy regions, the idea of dying
will be out OF The question Peace and righl
will reign undsturbed. Tho very faculties OF
the intellect will partake of the purity and the
elevation OF the moral nature. The tedious aud
cumbrous process of experiment aud observation
will be replaced by direct and transcendent
vision of truth IL seems ii the limit of logic
itself will be struck of IA fetters from the spirit
| The old problems insolnble here will seem per
fectly contemplate The circle will have been
squared there loag ago, ana philosophers stones
will be picked up by the roadside The elixir OF
life indeed, will be unknown, because, as We
have seen, il will be supertuous. Art and sci
enee will enter upon new phases. Enumeration
will proceed by such novel and unprecedented
process that We tremble to pronounce what two
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marons developed universe Saturday Re.
view