The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-14
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Many writer's have geae isto the ones
lon Of the probable ststAfe, Strength an,
bon60uration OF OUT fellow beino. Is othe
spheres. Christian WelG louc .e,o ;res
the height Of the inhsbitanss 81 Jnnitar :
forty feet eight inches. The Folrieris,
have moro recently imagiasd ! kind Of ce
lestial hierarchy, il which the successiv,
groups rise one above the other. ia ANA
logy with those Of the lover universe. in.
to which NJ Remand has termed biniyers
trin.vers, quatrinivers. eto. The plsuesa
themselves have soula, and die ont. :,
ours will do, to give place to newer forms
of planetary life. Svedenborg, everybody
knows, grew so familiar With the inhabi.
tants Of the several planets in which be
was in the habit Of spending his leisure
moments of spiritual ecstscy, that be has
but little to find out touching the moral
and other characteristics of our brethren
in those sbodes The feelings With which
we, in turn, inspire those remote relations
of our-the lively warmth of Venus, the
digniied calm Of Jupiter. the sardonic
coliness OF Saturn-are not less % alters
of fact and verscity. Science, thus in.
terpetrated. points to place for our souls
among thoss radiant spheres. Transport
ed among new conditions Of existence,
they may contract or put forth powers
akin to those Of ihe happier beings whose
lot has already been cast there. And, as
to wba. that lot may be, it makes the
mouth water to listen to NJ. Flammarion
lecturing US.
10 an atmosphere NO longer composed
of oxygen and oxoto, what ills of climate
may not be spared those fortunate deni-
zens? Tue whole pulmonary apparatus il
doubtless modified, and with it the whole
system OF organic functions
Instead of the gross and clumsy plan of
keeping up the bodily growth and warmth
by food, liquid and solid the degrading
expedient of borrowing for that end the
debris of other beings and, worst of all,
that of killing and devouring those en-
dowed with life, there may be system
of nourishing a,mospheres. composed OF
clements nutritious in themselves, and ca
pable of assimilation by organs of corre-
spending ethereal texture In the gen
eral repeal of laws which belong to man.
inferior state. that OF :" labor may come
in for the earliest abolition, and with it
go all those vulgar cares, appetiles, and
ambitioGs TO which so much of the mis-
cry and ennHi of terrestrial life are due
The origin Of evil will offer no point {,
philosophers 10 wrsngle over, for evil
itself will never have stepped in An
other law abrog ated. or rather never set
in force, will be that of death.
War aud violence, excess and decay,
being unknown in these happy regions,
the idea of dying will be out OF the ques-
ton Peace and right will reign andis-
turbed. The very faculties of the intel
lect will partake Of the purity and The ell
ovation of thu moral nature. The tedious
and cumbrous process Of experiment aud |
observation will be replaced BY direct
and transcendent vision of truth. Ill
seems as il the limit of logic itself will be |
struck OF as letters from The spirit. The |
old problems insoluble here. will seem
perfectly contemplate. The circle will |
have been squared there long ago, and |
philosophers stones will be picked up by
the roadside. The elixir of life, indeed,
will be unknown, because, as we have
seen, it will be superfaous. Art and
science will enter upon new phases. M
meration will proceed BIZ such novel AID
unprecedented process that we tremble to
pronounce what two and two may be ek-
pected to make in NJ. FIammasion's de-
veloped universe