The morning times., 1896-12-27
GEORGE PARSONS LkTHR0P'
70 SOSJDtD~SN y o UOt1 Y TO n
THOMAS ADDISON

But how DO you keep Kuro populated?'
/ ! asked Zorlin.
| I'VE are created, in manner, spontane
I ously.' he replied, by the eXertion OF Will
and unselfish desire and the fulfillment
OF many conditions of life and character
| which you Earth people do not understand.
! i am sorry to say, too, that you never
: can, owing 10 your condition, quite under
stand or fulfill them. You must live in
your way and can live rightly, but not on
SO high a plane as ours"
l noticed that he said We are created"
not we create ourselves This led to
| Some talk on religion; and he told Us
| good deal about his home planet. The re-
| Iigion Of Kuro is much like Christianity.
in fact, it is clearer, more luminous per
| ceptIon of Christianity than most Of us
| have. God is, for them, the creator; and
| their belief in he redemption is the same
as OUTS except that they take coSInic
! view Of il in relation to all theinhabitants
| of all worlds. 1t is, in their minds, the
| KEY of the universe. the solution of the
whole problem of life. | shall not go into
the matter in this brief memorandum; ior.
while Zorlin showed that they recognized
| she sacred history enacted upon Earth as
! affecting other spheres, he explained that
! they look uponit as manifestation pf lie
! great central verify which they >an
| also perceive in other manifestations. That
| which we perceive is perfectly and eter-
nally true; but they think they can see
more OF this eternal truth, or deeper into
| it, than we
| l hesitate TO dwell on this subject he
! cause as usual in theological matters-lis
utteranccs caused much trouble and upr"ar.
little later That was what he had in
mind when he forchodcd that his coming
would cause disturbance
1t WAS not long before ] learned that
| there had been a reunion of All Christians
on great and solid basis of harmony; ana
! the adva ntages OF this to the whole caItn
were very apparent When looked back
J tc my old period of the nineteenth century.
ii seemed incredible that human beings
could have extracted and dlffuscd frarn re-
liciun, which is the highest good, 80 mach
Of misery and hatred
Mars is smaller than Earth, Of course;
and Zorlm tod Us, also, that the number
Of pC olle is smaller IN proportion, 50 that
there are never more than can be developed
Ia the highest pitch OF wisdom, health
and efficiency there, and he thought We
might learn something valuable from this
example Their average Of inteilig .nCc is
very much above The human, ana his ac-
cords with the law they claim 20 ave
discovered, that the inhabited plan It's are
superior IN mind and spirit according -
they are farther away from the sun
we fI.u,e I; ore of ;..cs.al natural science
than you. well as OF great spiritual
truths. We are III constant mental com
mnnication with come OF the planets Be
sides, we learn Il great deal from the
meteors which fall gently into our 3tncS-
phere. These are usually fiSSurrd lnii con
tain i'm their CrcYiCcS the germs Of plant
and animal life, which we carefully cult
VatP and mature, SO that we have large
park tracts full OF wonderful CosmiC flora
and fauna. The canals which yupr {, lc-
scopes have discovered on III lanet are,
in part, n system of irrigation for ;lioSe
parks BY virtue OF our yer! general and
clear comm I'M on with the universe, Trough
this and other means, and by om whole
mode of living, we are able to convey a
z, o1 deal Cf cur Intelligence tn inaminaJc
substances and what you call forces SO
tnat they act almost rs though b! a
volit,on Of their own I am glad 10 see
that yOu, 10 a certain extent, are approach
ing this plane, although YOU seem TO he
hampered by the necessity you feel Of ac
complisfing results by physical and
mechanicalm Nomachincry, however
npenous-and TO amount of invention.
however marvelous-willeyer take the place
of Will Eower and character Those are
the things you VIII have TO cultivate. And
you viii have 10 cultivate restraint--as
exposed TO expansion, with its ever in
In tnNI a a Ln
world wag really we'll
1t * easy to see how this kind of talk
when often repeated, set people into a
fermpUt. wherever ZuTliu came.
He was treated as a distinguished guest
of the nation and of the entire earth, and
/ Travelled in his wake as a mere incidental
satellite. NY luster as a survivor of my
vanishedCcntury was scclipscd by his greater
grandeur of interest.
In spite of what he said, thought the
earth had achieved a vast improvement
New York, like the other large cities, was
now barracks for business and storage,
but was plentifully provided with shade
trees and open places. Most people lived
healthily and simply in the country. and
could run down to the former metropolis
from a distance of hundreds of miles in
very SNORT Time. NIltu OtNISiDIl II.
Here, as in Chicago, many of the tall
buildings or SKY sorapers had been made
available for landscape gardening, and
there were still plenty of them left 10
house the POOR and SICK and needy. After
ward, when visited LUnCon, Paris, Vienna,
Berlin and other European capitals /
found the same state OfthneS except that
their old buildings were lower. Mankind
sistent trials, that large cities are unfit
To live in: that the hEman family when
crowded so closely in a limited area be-
comes dirty and nervous, and that its
abodes and the very GIouud on which they
stand grow foul and unwEolesome. Cities,
for dwelling places, have been voted down
az outroSts or anneXcs OF he'll.
They were now clcansed. renovated and
made fit for the occupancy of their bust
ness earrisons and for laborers and the
poor.
Libraries were kept in the cities, and
enormous numbers OF newly printed dupl
cate copies of books ancient and modern
were sent out to subscribers ,Nor sent free,
10 people in the country; or the contents
were transmitted to anyone. anywhere by
phonograph and telephone. Similarly,
theatrical performances were given pub
licly in every rural district or in any pri-
vate house, by kinetoscope or vitascope,
with or without words; but this did not at
allinterfere with the performance of living
actors and actresses, who likewise fur
nished the original performance for vita
scope reproduction. and were able by
means OF this same invention To give per
manent records of gesture and expression
for the benefit of pupils in the fistrionc
art. Collections of paintings and sculpture,
instead OF being exhibited for limited
time in some one gallery in a city, were
carried around to oil quarters of the out