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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Lumen - -Author: Camille Flammarion - -Release Date: September 28, 2013 [EBook #43835] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LUMEN *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43835 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 535px;"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="535" height="800" alt="cover" /> @@ -240,7 +202,7 @@ University Press:<br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="contents"> <tr><td align="center">FIRST CONVERSATION</td></tr> <tr><td align="left"> </td><td align="center"> <small>PAGE</small> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">RESURRECTIO PRÆTERITI</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_1">1-63</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">RESURRECTIO PRÆTERITI</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_1">1-63</a></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><div class='blockquot'><p>Death—The soul—The hour of death—Separation of the soul—Sight of the soul in Heaven—The Solar System in the heavens—The Earth as seen from the heavens—The star Capella—Velocity of light—The terrestrial planet seen from afar—The worlds seen from afar—Lumen—Lumen sees again his own life.</p></div></td></tr> <tr><td align="center"><br />SECOND CONVERSATION</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">REFLUUM TEMPORIS</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_64">64-105</a></td></tr> @@ -249,7 +211,7 @@ University Press:<br /> <tr><td align="left">HOMO HOMUNCULUS</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_106">106-128</a></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><div class='blockquot'><p>The sphere of human observation—Time and space—Events in space—Time, space, and eternity.</p></div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[vi]</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td align="center"><br />FOURTH CONVERSATION</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">ANTERIORES VITÆ</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_129">129-196</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">ANTERIORES VITÆ</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_129">129-196</a></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><div class='blockquot'><p>Space and light—The star Gamma in Virgo—The system of Gamma in Virgo—Former existence—The plurality of existences—The unknown—The constellations—The elements—Life on the earth—The process of alimentation—Nutritive atmospheres—Poetry on the Earth—A humanity—The organisation of beings—The development of life—The genealogical tree of life—The men-plants—Souls and atoms—Other senses—Atoms and monads.</p></div></td></tr> <tr><td align="center"><br />FIFTH CONVERSATION</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">INGENIUM AUDAX: NATURA AUDACIOR</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_197">197-224</a></td></tr> @@ -271,10 +233,10 @@ University Press:<br /> <h2>FIRST CONVERSATION<br /> -<small>RESURRECTIO PRÆTERITI</small></h2> +<small>RESURRECTIO PRÆTERITI</small></h2> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You promised, dear Lumen, to describe +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You promised, dear Lumen, to describe to me that supremest of moments which immediately succeeds death, and to relate to me how, by a natural law, singular though it @@ -306,7 +268,7 @@ yourself still further from outer things, and to give me the most <i>fixed attention</i> of which your mind is capable.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> My one desire is to listen to your +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> My one desire is to listen to your revelations; speak, therefore, without fear and to the point, and deign to acquaint me with those impressions, as yet to me unknown, @@ -316,7 +278,7 @@ life.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> From what point do you wish me to begin my recital?</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> If you can recall it, I shall be +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> If you can recall it, I shall be pleased if you will begin at the moment when my trembling hands closed your eyes.</p> @@ -350,7 +312,7 @@ behind, a sense of indefinable sadness weighs upon and darkens the imagination and hinders clearness of vision.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Did you feel these sensations immediately +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Did you feel these sensations immediately after death?</p> <div class="sidenote">No such @@ -399,10 +361,10 @@ force, toward the point of creation, to which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page their sentiments, their aspirations, and their hopes have drawn them.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> The conversation into which I +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> The conversation into which I have drawn you, my dear master, recalls to my memory the dialogues of Plato on the immortality -of the soul; and as Phædrus asked his +of the soul; and as Phædrus asked his master, Socrates, on the day he had to drink the hemlock in obedience to the iniquitous sentence of the Athenians, I ask you—you who @@ -608,7 +570,7 @@ forsake. Moreover, it has special faculties by means of which it can transport itself from one point of space to another.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Now for the first time I am able +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Now for the first time I am able to understand death as a natural process, and to comprehend the individual existence of the soul, its independence of the body and of life, @@ -785,7 +747,7 @@ beings whose passions and sorrows Dante celebrates. One of the special faculties of this new world is that of seeing very far.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But pardon a rather simple remark. +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But pardon a rather simple remark. Is it not likely that the worlds or planets that revolve round each star must mingle in a distant view with their central @@ -819,7 +781,7 @@ can perceive distinctly details which at that distance would be absolutely hidden from the eyes of those dwelling upon this Earth.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Do they make use, then, of instruments +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Do they make use, then, of instruments superior to our telescopes?</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Well, if, in order to realise this marvellous @@ -848,7 +810,7 @@ or of those which can concentrate on the field of view a multitude of eyes in order to bring them to bear upon the desired object.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Yes, I can imagine it to be possible. +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Yes, I can imagine it to be possible. Then you are able to see the Earth, and to distinguish from above even the towns and villages of our lower world?</p> @@ -962,11 +924,11 @@ wound round the north. To the south I recognised the gardens of the Luxembourg and the Observatory. The cupola of the Pantheon covered like a grey hood the Mount of Ste. -Geneviève. To the west the grand avenue of the -Champs-Élysées formed a straight line. Farther +Geneviève. To the west the grand avenue of the +Champs-Élysées formed a straight line. Farther on I could distinguish the Bois de Boulogne,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> the environs of St. Cloud, the Wood of -Meudon, Sèvres, Ville d'Avray, and Montretout.</p> +Meudon, Sèvres, Ville d'Avray, and Montretout.</p> <div class="sidenote">Paris.</div> @@ -986,7 +948,7 @@ Triomphe visible.</div> <div class="sidenote">No Column -Vendôme.</div> +Vendôme.</div> <div class="sidenote">No obelisk in the Place @@ -1017,17 +979,17 @@ ago. The cupolas and the two side wings of the Observatory had disappeared. By degrees, as I continued my observations, I discovered that Paris was indeed much changed. The -Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, and all the +Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, and all the brilliant avenues that meet there, had disappeared. There was no Boulevard de -Sébastopol, no Station de l'Est, nor any other +Sébastopol, no Station de l'Est, nor any other station, and no railway. The tower of St. Jaques was enclosed in a court of old houses, and the Column of Victory was reached that way. The Column of the Bastile was also absent, for I should easily have recognised the figure upon it. An equestrian statue -filled the place of the Vendôme Column. The +filled the place of the Vendôme Column. The Rue Castiglione was an old green convent. The Rue de Rivoli had disappeared. The Louvre was either unfinished or partly pulled @@ -1075,7 +1037,7 @@ Eventually I succeeded in identifying the aspect of the town, and I gradually recognised the sites of the streets and of the public buildings which I had known in my early youth. -The Hôtel de Ville appeared to be decorated +The Hôtel de Ville appeared to be decorated with flags, and I could distinguish the square central dome of the Tuileries.</p> @@ -1124,7 +1086,7 @@ France, another world.</p> <div class="sidenote">In the star Capella.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> What an extraordinary discovery +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> What an extraordinary discovery for an analytical mind like yours, dear Lumen! By what means did you satisfy yourself that your conclusions were correct?</p> @@ -1204,7 +1166,7 @@ for reason and justice.</p> <p>I saw that he was describing the great Revolution of 1789, and the fall of the old political -world before the new régime. Very mournfully<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +world before the new régime. Very mournfully<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> they had followed the events of the Reign of Terror and the tyranny of that bloody time. They trembled for the future of the Earth, @@ -1233,10 +1195,10 @@ formidable array of war, drums, cannon, and a motley crowd armed with pikes. A cart, led by a man in red, bore the remains of Louis XVI. in the direction of the Faubourg -St. Honoré. An intoxicated mob lifted their +St. Honoré. An intoxicated mob lifted their fists to heaven. Some horsemen, sabre in hand, mournfully followed. Towards the -Champs-Élysées there were ditches into which +Champs-Élysées there were ditches into which the curious stumbled. But the agitation was concentrated in this region. It did not extend into the town, which appeared dead and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> @@ -1251,7 +1213,7 @@ I have often discussed and debated the vote of the Convention, but I confess to you I see no excuse of state in the execution of such men as Lavoisier, the creator of chemistry, Bailly, -the historian of astronomy, André Chenier, the +the historian of astronomy, André Chenier, the sweet poet, or the condemnation of Condorcet, the philosopher. These have roused my indignation much more than the punishment of @@ -1262,7 +1224,7 @@ and how much more I was astonished, <i>that I beheld in</i> 1864 <i>events actually present before me which had taken place at the end of the last century</i>.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In truth, it seems to me that +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In truth, it seems to me that this feeling of its impossibility ought to have awakened doubt in you. Visions are essentially illusory. We cannot admit their reality @@ -1276,7 +1238,7 @@ paradox realised? The common saying is, was just my position. It was impossible to deny what I saw, and equally impossible to admit it.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But was it not a conception of +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But was it not a conception of your own mind, a creation of your imagination, or perhaps a reminiscence of your memory? Are you sure it was a reality, not a strange @@ -1299,7 +1261,7 @@ were quite unaware of my knowledge of that history. Further, we had before our eyes <i>a present fact</i>, not a past event.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But, on the other hand, if the +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But, on the other hand, if the past can be thus merged into the present, if reality and vision can be allied in this way, if persons long since dead can be seen again @@ -1331,7 +1293,7 @@ be opposed to one another. I investigated the physical laws, and I discovered the solution of the mystery.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> What! the facts were real?</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> What! the facts were real?</p> <div class="sidenote">Explanation of the @@ -1495,7 +1457,7 @@ transmission of light.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> If the luminous ray which comes +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> If the luminous ray which comes from that star takes nearly seventy-two years to reach us, it follows that we see the star as it was nearly seventy-two years ago?</p> @@ -1507,7 +1469,7 @@ specially.</p> <div class="sidenote">A belated courier.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In other words, the ray of light +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In other words, the ray of light is like a courier who brings despatches from a distant country, and having been nearly seventy-two years on the way, his news is of @@ -1530,7 +1492,7 @@ not the actual surface as it was at the time of our observation, but such as it was when the light was emitted from that surface.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> This being so, if a star, the light +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> This being so, if a star, the light of which takes ten years to reach us, were to be annihilated to-day, we should continue to see it for ten years, since its last ray would not reach @@ -1620,7 +1582,7 @@ from Capella one would see the Earth as it was seventy-two years earlier, for light takes the same time to traverse the distance either way.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Master, I have followed your explanation +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Master, I have followed your explanation attentively. But, I ask you, does the Earth shine like a star? Surely she is not luminous?</p> @@ -1654,7 +1616,7 @@ the Earth could only reach Neptune in the same time; nearly seventy-two years, therefore, separate Capella and the Earth.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Although these views are new +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Although these views are new and strange to me, I now understand perfectly how, since the light was nearly seventy-two years in traversing the abyss which separates @@ -1683,7 +1645,7 @@ the very day of my death I found myself on this star, which I had admired and loved so much all my life on the terrestrial globe.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Ah, Master, although everything +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Ah, Master, although everything is thus explained, your vision is not the less wonderful. Truly it is an astonishing phenomenon that of seeing thus at once the <i>past in @@ -1712,7 +1674,7 @@ will appear to you still more imaginary if you<span class="pagenum"><a name="Pag can listen a little longer to the narrative of that day which followed my death.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens. </span> Go on, I beg of you, I am eager +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens. </span> Go on, I beg of you, I am eager to hear you.</p> @@ -1723,7 +1685,7 @@ his own life on Earth.</div> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> On turning away from the sanguinary -scenes of the Place de la Révolution, my +scenes of the Place de la Révolution, my eyes were attracted towards a habitation of somewhat an antique style, situated in front of Notre Dame, and occupying the place of the @@ -1751,7 +1713,7 @@ I had been carried off by a whirlwind; for, as you are aware, I had lost all sense of time. When I began again to see objects distinctly, I noticed a troop of children running across -the Place de Panthéon. They looked like +the Place de Panthéon. They looked like school children coming out of class; for they had their portfolios and books in their hands, and were apparently going to their homes, @@ -1774,7 +1736,7 @@ when in this child I recognised—<i>myself!</i></p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You saw yourself?</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You saw yourself?</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Yes, myself, with the blond curls of six years of age, with my little collar embroidered @@ -1790,7 +1752,7 @@ the Rue d'Ulm. There I saw that, after passing through the house, we reappeared in the garden in the midst of a numerous company.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Master, pardon me a criticism. +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Master, pardon me a criticism. I confess to you that it appears to me impossible that you could see yourself; you could not be two persons; and since you were @@ -1803,7 +1765,7 @@ see yourself as an infant.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Why cannot you admit this point on the same grounds as the preceding ones?</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Because you cannot see yourself +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Because you cannot see yourself double, an infant and an old man, at the same time.</p> @@ -1825,13 +1787,13 @@ epoch? You admit, likewise, that as I saw the streets of that time I saw also the children running in those streets? You admit all this?</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Yes, decidedly.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Yes, decidedly.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Well, then, since I saw this troop of children, and myself amongst them, why do you say I could not see myself as well as the others?</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But you were no longer there +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But you were no longer there amongst them!</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Again, I repeat, this whole troop of @@ -1847,7 +1809,7 @@ could see me in company with my comrades,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" why should I form an exception? I saw them all, and I saw myself amongst them.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I had not fully taken in the idea. +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I had not fully taken in the idea. It is evident, in short, that seeing a troop of children, of whom you were one, you could not fail to see yourself as well as you saw the others.</p> @@ -1903,7 +1865,7 @@ beyond, the other here where I am, the former joyous and free-hearted, the other pensive and agitated.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In truth it is strange!</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In truth it is strange!</p> <div class="sidenote">Lumen sees himself a @@ -1929,7 +1891,7 @@ life, and it was interesting to see him thus pass across my field of view. In 1810 I saw myself promoted to the Polytechnic School, and there I was talking of the course of studies with -François Arago, the best of comrades. He +François Arago, the best of comrades. He already belonged to the institute, and had replaced Monge at the school, because the Emperor had complained of the Jesuitism of @@ -1952,10 +1914,10 @@ veiled by distance, but actually before my eyes. I was present again at the combat with the Allies on the Hill of Montmartre, and saw their descent into the capital, and the fall of -the statue in the Place Vendôme, when it was +the statue in the Place Vendôme, when it was drawn through the streets with cries of joy. I saw the camp of the English and the Prussians -in the Champs-Élysées, the destruction of the +in the Champs-Élysées, the destruction of the Louvre, the journey to Ghent, the entrance of Louis XVIII.</p> @@ -2002,15 +1964,15 @@ judgments, but I loved her dearly, as you know. The singular and brief revolution of 1848 surprised me as much as when I first witnessed it. On the Place de la Bourse -I saw Lamoricière, who was buried last year, -and in the Champs-Élysées, Cavaignac, who +I saw Lamoricière, who was buried last year, +and in the Champs-Élysées, Cavaignac, who has been dead five or six years. The 2nd of December found me an observer on my solitary tower, and from thence I witnessed many striking events which passed before me, and many others which were unknown to me.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Did the event pass rapidly before +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Did the event pass rapidly before you?</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> I had no perception of time; but @@ -2018,7 +1980,7 @@ the whole retrospective panorama appeared to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ me in successive scenes—in less than a day, perhaps in a few hours.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Then I do not understand you at +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Then I do not understand you at all. Pardon your old friend this interruption, a little too abrupt perhaps. As I took it, you saw the real events of your life, not merely @@ -2086,13 +2048,13 @@ of the rapid rate at which my soul had travelled, which far surpassed the velocity of the rays of light.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Was not this a very strange +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Was not this a very strange phenomenon?</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Do any other objections rise in your mind as you listen to me?</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> No, this is the only one; or +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> No, this is the only one; or rather, this one has puzzled and interested me so greatly that it has absorbed all others.</p> @@ -2119,7 +2081,7 @@ witness to the rapid succession of events both throughout the century and of my own life.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> That difficulty had not escaped +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> That difficulty had not escaped me; I had weighed the thought, and had come to the conclusion that you had revolved in space, even as a balloon is spun round by @@ -2152,7 +2114,7 @@ degree would inevitably fall upon those of the first magnitude, unless retained in their orbits by centrifugal force.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In reflecting on the effect of the +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In reflecting on the effect of the concentration of thought upon a single point, and of the attraction which consequently ensues towards that point, I cannot but conclude @@ -2181,7 +2143,7 @@ I saw but one object, around which were grouped the ideas, the images, and the associations to which it had given birth.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Your rapid flight to Capella and +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Your rapid flight to Capella and your equally rapid return to the Earth were governed by this psychological law; and you acted more freely than in a dream, because @@ -2313,7 +2275,7 @@ observations.</p> is paling already under its rosy light. I must return to the constellations. . . .</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Just one more word, Lumen, +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Just one more word, Lumen, before we conclude this interview. Can earthly scenes be transmitted successively into space—if so, the present could be kept @@ -2351,11 +2313,11 @@ stars earthly events are not seen until four, six, ten years after their occurrence; but there are stars so distant that light only reaches them after many centuries, and even -thousands of years. Indeed, there are nebulæ +thousands of years. Indeed, there are nebulæ to which light takes millions of years to travel.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Therefore it only needs a sight +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Therefore it only needs a sight sufficiently piercing to witness events historic or geologic which are long since past. Could not one, therefore, so gifted see the Deluge, @@ -2369,7 +2331,7 @@ day, when we can continue our talk on this subject, and I will then give you a general sketch which will open out for you new horizons. The stars call me, and are already -disappearing. I must away. Adieu, Quærens, +disappearing. I must away. Adieu, Quærens, adieu.</p> @@ -2378,7 +2340,7 @@ adieu.</p> <div class="footnote"> <p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1">[1]</a> Physiological anatomy would probably explain this -fact by suggesting that a sort of <i>punctum cæcum</i> is displaced +fact by suggesting that a sort of <i>punctum cæcum</i> is displaced in order to conceal the object that one does not wish to see.</p></div> @@ -2390,7 +2352,7 @@ angle of one second, is at a distance of 206,265 times its own diameter, whatever it may be; because as there are 1,296,000 seconds in the circumference, the ratio between the circumference and its diameter being -314,159 × 2, it follows that this object is at a distance +314,159 × 2, it follows that this object is at a distance equal to 206,265 times its own diameter. As Capella sees the semi-diameter of the terrestrial orbit only under an angle 22 times smaller, its distance is 22 @@ -2419,7 +2381,7 @@ of this work is grounded.</p></div></div> <h3>I</h3> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Your revelations which were interrupted +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Your revelations which were interrupted by the break of day, O Lumen, have left me hungering and thirsting to hear more of this wonderful mystery. As a child to @@ -2477,7 +2439,7 @@ my ultra-terrestrial observations.</p> <div class="sidenote">An inquiring mind.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> It is not, I assure you, in a spirit +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> It is not, I assure you, in a spirit of simple curiosity, dear Lumen, that I ventured to draw you forth from the bosom of the invisible world, where advanced souls partake @@ -2503,7 +2465,7 @@ second, you are too credulous, and do not appreciate my communications at their full value. However, I shall continue.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Dear comrade of my earthly life!</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Dear comrade of my earthly life!</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> The remaining facts, which I shall now relate to you, are still more extraordinary @@ -2511,7 +2473,7 @@ than any that preceded them.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I feel like Tantalus in the midst +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I feel like Tantalus in the midst of his lake, or like the spirits in the twenty-fourth canto of the Purgatorio. I am as eager as the Hesperides holding out their hands for @@ -2554,7 +2516,7 @@ to which I have referred, my eyes being fixed on Paris, I was surprised to see it a prey to an insurrection of the people. Examining it more attentively, I discerned barricades on -the boulevards, near the Hôtel de Ville, and +the boulevards, near the Hôtel de Ville, and along the streets, and the citizens firing at one another. The first idea that occurred to me was that a new revolution was taking place @@ -2591,7 +2553,7 @@ capital of French manufactures. It followed from thence that, <i>after</i> 1854 and 1848, I had before my eyes an event of 1831. Presently my glance turned to Paris on the day -of a public fête. The king, a coarse-looking +of a public fête. The king, a coarse-looking man, with a rubicund face, was tearing along in a magnificent chariot, and was just crossing the Pont Neuf. The weather was splendid. @@ -2694,7 +2656,7 @@ things was not the Earth, but a globe like the Earth, the history of which was precisely the opposite of yours.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I myself have had the idea also +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I myself have had the idea also that it might have been as you say. But was it not easy for you to make sure of it by ascertaining whether it was the Earth or another @@ -2745,13 +2707,13 @@ the Pyramids. An image of Napoleon as emperor had become first Consul, and I saw the Revolution succeed to the Consulate. Some time after I observed the square in front of -the Château of Versailles covered with mourning-coaches,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> +the Château of Versailles covered with mourning-coaches,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> and in an open pathway from Ville-d'Avray I recognised the botanist Jean Jacques Rousseau slowly walking along, and, no doubt, at that moment philosophising on the death of Louis XV. I was particularly struck -with the gala fêtes at the beginning of the +with the gala fêtes at the beginning of the reign of Louis XV., worthy successors of those of the Regency, during which the treasures of France glistened in precious stones on the @@ -2782,14 +2744,14 @@ had gained incomparably in magnificence.</p> monarchy.</div> <p>I had formed a very imperfect idea of the -splendour of the royal fêtes at Versailles. It +splendour of the royal fêtes at Versailles. It was a satisfaction to me to be present at them; and it was not without interest that I recognised Louis XIV. himself, on the splendid terrace at the west, surrounded by a thousand nobles whose breasts were covered with decorations. It was in the evening; the last rays of glowing -sunshine were reflected on the royal façade, +sunshine were reflected on the royal façade, whilst gallant couples gravely descended the steps of the marble stairs, and presently disappeared along the silent and shady avenues. @@ -2887,7 +2849,7 @@ to dispute the possession of the left bank.</p> <div class="sidenote">Old Paris</div> <div class="sidenote">Rome of the -Cæsars.</div> +Cæsars.</div> <div class="sidenote">Judea.</div> @@ -2895,7 +2857,7 @@ Cæsars.</div> <div class="sidenote">Death of Julius -Cæsar.</div> +Cæsar.</div> <p>There was, I assure you, an immense interest in taking part, if I may so express myself, in @@ -2910,7 +2872,7 @@ crenellated towers. I admired in turns the beautiful city of the fifteenth century, its curious types of architecture, the celebrated tower of Nesle, and the extensive convents -of Saint Germain-des-Prés. Where the tower +of Saint Germain-des-Prés. Where the tower of St. Jacques now stands, I recognised the gloomy court of the alchemist Nicolas Flamel. The round and pointed roofs had the singular @@ -2925,7 +2887,7 @@ the seat of civilisation was changed, and was now in the south. I will confess to you, my friend, that I never felt greater delight than at the moment when I was permitted to see -Rome of the Cæsars in all its splendour. It +Rome of the Cæsars in all its splendour. It was the day of a triumph, and no doubt under the rule of the Syrian princes; for in the midst of magnificent surroundings, gorgeous @@ -2970,23 +2932,23 @@ the crown of the Divine sacrifice. . . . I cannot dwell on it; you can understand what various feelings agitated my soul on this supreme occasion. . . . A little later, returning to Rome, -I recognised Julius Cæsar prostrate in death, +I recognised Julius Cæsar prostrate in death, with Antony beside him holding what I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span> think was a roll of papyrus in his left hand. The conspirators were hastening down to the banks of the Tiber. With a very natural -curiosity I traced back the life of Julius Cæsar, +curiosity I traced back the life of Julius Cæsar, and found him with Vercingetorix in the centre of Gaul, and I may state that none of the suppositions of our modern historians respecting the situation of Alesia are correct. In fact, this fortress was situated on . . .</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span>. Master, pardon me for interrupting +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span>. Master, pardon me for interrupting you, but I am anxious to seize this opportunity to question you on a particular point respecting the Dictator. Since you have seen -Julius Cæsar, tell me, I pray you, if his face +Julius Cæsar, tell me, I pray you, if his face resembles that given by the Emperor Napoleon III. in his great work on the life of that famous captain?</p> @@ -2997,7 +2959,7 @@ possible for me to do so. But reflect for a moment, and you will see that the laws of perspective forbid me.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Of perspective? You mean to +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Of perspective? You mean to say of politics.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> No, of perspective (although these @@ -3009,10 +2971,10 @@ from above, not face to face; that is to say, when they are standing we have only a horizontal projection of them. You may remember that once in a balloon, as we passed over the -Vendôme Column at Paris, you remarked to +Vendôme Column at Paris, you remarked to me that Napoleon seen from that height was not above the level of other men. It was just -the same with Cæsar. In the other world +the same with Cæsar. In the other world material measures disappear, only intellectual measures exist.</p> @@ -3027,7 +2989,7 @@ Pyramids.</div> Age.</div> <p>To continue, however, I retraced history, -from Julius Cæsar to the Consuls, and then to +from Julius Cæsar to the Consuls, and then to the kings of Latium, in order to witness the rape of the Sabines, which I was pleased to observe actually, as a type of ancient manners. @@ -3054,7 +3016,7 @@ forests and swamps; even the Druids had disappeared, and the savage inhabitants strongly resembled those that we find now in Oceania. It was truly the <i>stone age</i> as it is unearthed for -us by modern archæologists. Further back still, +us by modern archæologists. Further back still, I saw that the number of men diminished by degrees, and the domination of nature seemed to belong to a race of the great apes, to the @@ -3068,7 +3030,7 @@ prevailed over the surface of the planet, and the presence of man in the midst of such a chaotic state of things was no longer possible.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I shall confess to you, dear +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I shall confess to you, dear Lumen, that I have waited with impatience for the moment when you should arrive at the garden of Eden, in order to learn in what form<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span> @@ -3092,7 +3054,7 @@ But I do not see why paradise might not have been, with as good reason, at the end of human society.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Indeed I think it would be more +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Indeed I think it would be more just to suppose it to be at the end rather than the beginning, as the result and the recompense, instead of the misunderstood prelude, @@ -3194,7 +3156,7 @@ the thread of my narrative, but which were nevertheless incomparably more extraordinary than the general succession of events.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But if it was really the Earth, +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But if it was really the Earth, how comes it that the astronomical calculations you made in order to recognise her in the constellation of the Altar, indicated, as you have @@ -3213,7 +3175,7 @@ perspective.</div> in consequence of my voyage in space. In place of the stars of the third magnitude, α, γ, and ϛ (alpha, gamma, zeta), and stars of the fourth magnitude, β, δ, and θ (beta, delta, theta), which constitute -that figure as seen from the Earth, my distance towards the nebulæ had +that figure as seen from the Earth, my distance towards the nebulæ had reduced those starsa to little imperceptible points. It had placed other brilliant stars there, which were no doubt α (alpha) and β (beta) of Auriga, θ, ι, η (theta, iota, eta), and perhaps even ε (epsilon) of @@ -3228,7 +3190,7 @@ the Earth that Lumen saw.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I had not thought of this inevitable +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I had not thought of this inevitable change of perspective on the other side of Capella; and so it was really the Earth that you saw, and therefore its history was @@ -3254,7 +3216,7 @@ backwards.</div> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> The first circumstance is connected with the battle of Waterloo.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> No one remembers that catastrophe +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> No one remembers that catastrophe better than I do. I received a ball in my shoulder there, in the neighbourhood of Mont Saint-Jean, and a sabre-cut on my right @@ -3307,18 +3269,18 @@ the strange picture by Raffet, and the spectral epigram of the German poet Sedlitz:—</p> <div class='poem'><span lang="fr"> -"La caisse sonne, étrange,<br /> +"La caisse sonne, étrange,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Fortement elle retentit.</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Dans leur fosse ressuscitent</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Les vieux soldats péris."</span><br /></span></div> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Les vieux soldats péris."</span><br /></span></div> <div class='unindent'>And this other:—</div> <div class='poem'><span lang="fr"> "C'est la grande revue,<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Qu'à l'heure de minuit</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Aux Champs-Élysées</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Tient César décédé."</span><br /></span> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Qu'à l'heure de minuit</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Aux Champs-Élysées</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Tient César décédé."</span><br /></span> </div> <div class='unindent'>It was really Waterloo, but a <i>Waterloo beyond @@ -3366,7 +3328,7 @@ who gained it; instead of a prisoner, he became a sovereign. Waterloo was an 18th Brumaire! . . .</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Dear Lumen, I do not half understand +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Dear Lumen, I do not half understand this new effect of the laws of light. If you have discovered it, I shall be grateful to you if you will give me an explanation of it.</p> @@ -3375,7 +3337,7 @@ you if you will give me an explanation of it.</p> telling you that I removed from the Earth with a <i>greater</i> velocity than that of light.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But tell me, I pray you, how +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But tell me, I pray you, how does this retrogression in space enable you to see events in an order inverse to that in which they took place?</p> @@ -3394,7 +3356,7 @@ you always like a photograph which did not grow old; whilst the original is made old by the years that elapse.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I understood this fact already +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I understood this fact already in our first conversation.</p> <div class="sidenote">Retrogressive @@ -3448,7 +3410,7 @@ passing successively by the points A, B, C, D, E, F, can retrace successively the secular history of the Earth in those epochs.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Master, at what distance are these +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Master, at what distance are these photographs from one another?</p> <div class="sidenote">Photographs @@ -3537,7 +3499,7 @@ have been able to distinguish not only the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98 retrogression of history for 10,000 years or 100,000 years, but even for 5,000,000 years.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Can the mind, then, by its powers +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Can the mind, then, by its powers alone, cross in this way the immeasurable spaces of the heavens?</p> @@ -3567,7 +3529,7 @@ the Earth from the Sun, whilst light occupies <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> What length of time did your +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> What length of time did your voyage to that remote universe occupy?</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Have I not told you that time does @@ -3576,7 +3538,7 @@ Whether I employed a year or an hour, it would have been exactly the same period in infinity.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I have thought it over, and +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I have thought it over, and the physical difficulties seem to me enormous. Permit me now to submit to you a strange thought that has just come into my @@ -3585,7 +3547,7 @@ head.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> It is to hear your reflections that I give you this narrative.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I want to ask you if the same +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I want to ask you if the same inversion would take place with the hearing as well as the sight? If you can see an event backwards from its real occurrence, @@ -3695,7 +3657,7 @@ life, from the mollusc to man, is the development of one single and sole genealogical tree. The human form has its origin in the animal form. Man is the butterfly developed -from the chrysalis of the palæontological +from the chrysalis of the palæontological ages. From this fact the consequence results that on other worlds organic life is different from what it is here, and that their @@ -3714,7 +3676,7 @@ see, and they see what you cannot see. The organs are adapted to the functions they have to fulfil.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> We are not, then, the absolute +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> We are not, then, the absolute type of creation? Creation itself is, it appears, a perpetual development of forces in activity.</p> @@ -3743,7 +3705,7 @@ they have no consciousness of their existence. The spirits who live really the spiritual life are the only ones who are fitted for immortality.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Are there many of them?</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Are there many of them?</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> My friend, behold the dawn of morning which invites me anew to return into the @@ -3790,7 +3752,7 @@ metaphysical consequences.</p> impediment to vision.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I have listened to you with interest, +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I have listened to you with interest, Lumen, without, I own, being entirely convinced that all you have told me is actually real. Indeed it is difficult to believe that it @@ -3824,7 +3786,7 @@ if this be your sole objection, it is, I must say, far from being an insurmountable one.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You have a special faculty for +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You have a special faculty for resolving all doubts. Perhaps this is one of the gifts granted to spiritual beings. I have been obliged successively to admit, that you have @@ -3854,7 +3816,7 @@ one has a single true idea of what takes place upon the Earth, and that man utterly fails to understand nature?</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In the name of all the indisputable +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> In the name of all the indisputable truths of modern science, I should dare to think that you were trying to impose upon me.</p> @@ -3876,7 +3838,7 @@ simple ray of light shot from a far-off star, you learn what are the elements which compose this inaccessible star and feed its brilliancy. This knowledge, my brother, is of more value -than all the conquests of Alexander, of Cæsar, +than all the conquests of Alexander, of Cæsar, and of Napoleon, than all the discoveries of Ptolemy, of Columbus, of Gutenberg, than all the books of Moses and of Confucius. Only @@ -3903,7 +3865,7 @@ telegraphic message is transmitted? No, you cannot. Cease then to retain doubts which have not even the merit of being scientific.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> My objections, learned master, +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> My objections, learned master, have not any other end in view than to elicit fresh light upon the subject. I am far from denying the truth of all you tell me, and I but @@ -3947,7 +3909,7 @@ atom. That is all. Beyond the impressions you receive there are an infinitely greater number unperceived by you.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Pardon, master, but this new +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Pardon, master, but this new aspect of nature is not sufficiently clear for me to understand it. Would you. . . .</p> @@ -4091,7 +4053,7 @@ of nature.</p> senses are limited.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Certainly, master, I own that as +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Certainly, master, I own that as you unfold these possibilities a new and singular clearness enlightens my understanding, and your teachings appear to me a true interpretation @@ -4150,7 +4112,7 @@ yourself, know that which you cannot know, and form an idea of nature completely at variance with your own.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> All this is utterly beyond my +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> All this is utterly beyond my comprehension.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Moreover, my earthly friend, I can @@ -4260,7 +4222,7 @@ reserved for those beings, who, even while on Earth, have succeeded in gradually overcoming their lower nature.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span>. To return to the transmission of +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span>. To return to the transmission of light in space. Does not light lose itself at last? Does the aspect of the Earth remain eternally visible, and never, on the contrary, @@ -4348,7 +4310,7 @@ long I shall seek to verify this fact, and see if its reality does not form a part of the infinite richness of the astral creations.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> If the ray which leaves the Earth +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> If the ray which leaves the Earth is never <i>destroyed</i>, master, our actions are then eternal?</p> @@ -4432,7 +4394,7 @@ question and answer.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Your revelations, Lumen, are +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Your revelations, Lumen, are awful! Thus, our eternal destinies are intimately bound up with the construction of the universe itself. I have many times speculated @@ -4458,7 +4420,7 @@ his answer could have been received!</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> It would, in fact, be a conversation between the living and the dead.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Pardon a last question, master—one +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Pardon a last question, master—one perhaps a little indiscreet, but a last one, for I see Venus is paling, and I feel that your voice will soon cease to be heard. If actions @@ -4502,7 +4464,7 @@ have been accomplished, although they are past, and indeed when they have entirely vanished.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Believe me, master, this truth +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Believe me, master, this truth will never more be effaced from my memory.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span> It is precisely this point which I find so exceedingly marvellous.</p> @@ -4659,13 +4621,13 @@ the infinite.</p> <h2>FOURTH CONVERSATION<br /> -<small>ANTERIORES VITÆ</small></h2> +<small>ANTERIORES VITÆ</small></h2> <div class="sidenote">New horizons.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Two years have fled, Lumen, since +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Two years have fled, Lumen, since the day when you granted me that mysterious interview. During this period, unconsciously for the inhabitants of eternal space, but most @@ -4709,7 +4671,7 @@ also real, and moreover, are in perfect harmony with our intellectual faculties as already manifested upon the earth.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Be assured, Lumen, that I bring +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Be assured, Lumen, that I bring to you an open mind, cleared from all prejudice, and I am eagerly expecting to hear revelations such as the human ear has never @@ -4737,7 +4699,7 @@ transmission of light in space</i>.</p> <div class="sidenote">Velocity of Light.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I know that light, whatever it +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I know that light, whatever it may be, is the agent by which objects are rendered visible to our eyes, that it is not transmitted instantaneously from one point to @@ -4759,7 +4721,7 @@ movement?</p> movement of Sound.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I think so. I compare it to that +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I think so. I compare it to that of sound, although it be accomplished upon a scale incomparably more vast. By undulation following undulation, sound is diffused in the @@ -4830,7 +4792,7 @@ the facts which have happened to me during my ultra-terrestrial life since our last interview.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> These principles of optics are, to +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> These principles of optics are, to my mind, clearly established. The day after your death in October 1864, when, as you have confided to me, you found yourself @@ -4880,7 +4842,7 @@ to traverse, I had reviewed my whole life in that one day, and I perceived even my own interment.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> It is as if, on returning from +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> It is as if, on returning from Capella to the Earth, you had seen, as in a mirror, the seventy-two years of your life photographed year by year. The one the farthest @@ -4984,7 +4946,7 @@ the skull like a little hat.</p> Thus, you see, in their exterior they differ little from the inhabitants of the Earth.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Are there, then, in other worlds +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Are there, then, in other worlds beings entirely distinct from us, but who, notwithstanding<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span> their dissimilarities, can be compared with us?</p> @@ -5016,7 +4978,7 @@ ourselves, they belong to that scale in the order of souls which immediately precedes that of terrestrial humanity as a whole.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span>. Yet there is a wide divergence +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span>. Yet there is a wide divergence between human beings themselves in all that pertains both to intellect and morals. We in Europe differ greatly from the tribes of Abyssinia @@ -5108,13 +5070,13 @@ that I was not dreaming. . . .</p> looking towards me without knowing it, was. . . . Can I tell you? Well, it was <i>myself!</i></p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> How <i>yourself?</i></p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> How <i>yourself?</i></p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Yes, my very self. I recognised myself instantly, and you can judge of my surprise!</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Certainly I can. I cannot comprehend +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Certainly I can. I cannot comprehend it at all.</p> <div class="sidenote">Anterior @@ -5148,7 +5110,7 @@ previous existence, and riveted anew the golden chain, whose links life on Earth had broken!</p> -<p>In truth, dear Quærens, it was my very self +<p>In truth, dear Quærens, it was my very self who then was living on that planet of Virgo. I really saw myself, and I could follow in sequence the events of my life and the @@ -5163,7 +5125,7 @@ during that existence—come out of the wood, approach us, and join in our conversation by the side of the murmuring brook.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Master, I fail still to comprehend +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Master, I fail still to comprehend how you could really see yourself on that planet of Virgo. Were you then gifted with ubiquity?</p> @@ -5233,7 +5195,7 @@ impressions of events long passed away.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></span></p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> This duration of the passage of +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> This duration of the passage of light being proved, I have not any objection to urge on this point, but I frankly own that to credit an experience of such amazing singularity, @@ -5291,7 +5253,7 @@ heads, have long ago ceased even to exist—may indeed have ceased to exist since the beginning of your world.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> We know this is so. Thus you +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> We know this is so. Thus you have seen, unrolled before your eyes, your existence previous to the last one, 172 years after it had flown by.</p> @@ -5302,7 +5264,7 @@ now indeed review my entire life by going closer to that planet, as I have already done for my terrestrial existence.</p> -<p>Quærens. So, through the medium of light, +<p>Quærens. So, through the medium of light, you have really seen again your last two incarnations?</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Precisely; and what is more, I have @@ -5310,7 +5272,7 @@ seen them, and continue to see them, <i>simultaneously</i>,<span class="pagenum" side by side as it were of one another.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You see them again both at the +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You see them again both at the <i>same time?</i></p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> This fact is easily explained. The @@ -5333,7 +5295,7 @@ other, since those acts, although present and future to my actual observation, are in reality past.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> This is indeed a strange experience!</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> This is indeed a strange experience!</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> But what struck me most in this unexpected observation of two of my previous @@ -5448,7 +5410,7 @@ one has the feeling of being stationary.</p> the slumber of my terrestrial senses my soul had reminiscences of its anterior existence.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But I also often feel, and see myself +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But I also often feel, and see myself flying in dreams in precisely the way you describe, without wings or machinery, and simply by an effort of will. Is this, then, a @@ -5477,7 +5439,7 @@ living creatures crawl as upon the Earth.</p> <div class="sidenote">Plurality of existences.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> The conclusion resulting then +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> The conclusion resulting then from your experience is, that you have had a life anterior to that upon the Earth. Do you, then, believe in a plurality of existences for @@ -5490,7 +5452,7 @@ earthly life and my anterior life upon the planet of Virgo. Besides, I can recall many other existences.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Ah! that is precisely what I lack +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Ah! that is precisely what I lack in order to possess a similar conviction. I can recall absolutely nothing that preceded my birth into this world.</p> @@ -5539,7 +5501,7 @@ herbage. The butterfly, which flits from flower to flower, has not any memory of the time when its cocoon dreamed, as it hung suspended from its web; nor of the twilight, -when its larvæ trailed from plant to plant; +when its larvæ trailed from plant to plant; nor of the night, when it was buried like a nut in its shell. This does not alter the fact that the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis, and @@ -5556,7 +5518,7 @@ anterior ones. Uranic life and planetary life represent two states, free and distinct the one from the other.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Still, master, if we had already +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Still, master, if we had already lived a life before this one, something of it would remain with us, otherwise these anterior existences might as well never have @@ -5601,7 +5563,7 @@ of the soul.</p> <div class="sidenote">Creation of the soul.</div> -<p><i>Quærens.</i> Have not most philosophers and +<p><i>Quærens.</i> Have not most philosophers and theologians taught that the soul and the body are created at one and the same time?</p> @@ -5616,7 +5578,7 @@ do you then suppose, that the soul appears in the fluid brain of the foetus or of the embryo?</p> -<p><i>Quærens.</i> It was thought in olden times +<p><i>Quærens.</i> It was thought in olden times that the real spiritual quickening of the human being took place during the sixth week of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span> gestation, but the modern belief is that it @@ -5644,7 +5606,7 @@ spiritual grandeur of the soul itself? And would it not, besides, be the complete materialisation of our intellectual faculties?</p> -<p><i>Quærens.</i> And yet——</p> +<p><i>Quærens.</i> And yet——</p> <p><i>Lumen.</i> Yes; that seems so to you, because upon your planet no soul can incarnate @@ -5654,7 +5616,7 @@ must look through the veil. The soul is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" not an effect. The body serves it only as its garment.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I admit that it would indeed be +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I admit that it would indeed be singular that an event of such dire importance as the <i>creation</i> of an immortal soul should spring from a carnal cause, should @@ -5671,7 +5633,7 @@ precede it? Also, if it is really desirable to have in prospect a journey without end through endless worlds, and an eternal transmigration? For at last there must be an -end to it all, and, after many æons of voyages, +end to it all, and, after many æons of voyages, we must some day finish our existence and seek repose. Would it not be as well to do so after one existence only?</p> @@ -5773,7 +5735,7 @@ such separations have been known to end in death. How many facts have been stated by trustworthy witnesses of the sudden apparition of a person to an intimate friend, of a wife to -a husband, of a mother to a son, and <i>vice versâ</i>, +a husband, of a mother to a son, and <i>vice versâ</i>, just at the moment of death, even though many leagues might separate them! The most captious critic cannot in these days deny @@ -5811,7 +5773,7 @@ this Earth.</p> <div class="sidenote">Plurality of lives.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Reflection and study had already +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Reflection and study had already inclined me, Lumen, to believe in the plurality of the existences of the soul. Yet this doctrine lacks proofs, logical, moral, and even physical, @@ -5850,7 +5812,7 @@ your light and augment your knowledge.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span></p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> It is for this cause chiefly that I +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> It is for this cause chiefly that I am always eager to hear you.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Light, you understand, is the means @@ -5925,7 +5887,7 @@ stars as regards one another has completely changed in consequence of the different position of that star and of the Earth.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Therefore the appearance of the +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Therefore the appearance of the constellation which one has so long believed to be ineffaceably traced upon the vaulted sky is only due to perspective. In changing our @@ -5947,7 +5909,7 @@ orbit were of a dimension sufficiently vast for the two opposite points of this orbit to change the view of this celestial scenery.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Seventy-four millions of leagues—</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Seventy-four millions of leagues—</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span></p> @@ -5963,7 +5925,7 @@ of the Middle Ages.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Certain charts of the Middle +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Certain charts of the Middle Ages represent the Zodiac as an arch in the heavens, and place some of the constellations, such as Andromeda, the Lyre, Cassiopea, @@ -5998,7 +5960,7 @@ of the heavens lost.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> All its poetry is lost. . . . I +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> All its poetry is lost. . . . I shall feel, however, a certain satisfaction in believing that for a part of my life I have rested on the bosom of Andromeda. It is @@ -6205,7 +6167,7 @@ Upon this other world, on the contrary, this nourishment <i>is only obtained with labour</i> and at the price of incessant effort.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Then this world is inferior to ours +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Then this world is inferior to ours in the scale of progress?</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Without any doubt, seeing that I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span> @@ -6252,7 +6214,7 @@ earned beyond the grave, to the possession of intellectual gifts, which the soul can keep as a rich and inalienable possession.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You speak, master, as if you +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> You speak, master, as if you thought it were possible to live without eating.</p> @@ -6408,7 +6370,7 @@ at a time. Thus they pass their entire life, and finally die victims to the struggle for existence.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Better far never to have been +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Better far never to have been born! But does not the same reflection apply to the Earth?</p> @@ -6507,7 +6469,7 @@ of the beings on Andromeda.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I gather from this narration, that +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I gather from this narration, that the inhabitants of Delta Andromeda are, both physically and intellectually, greatly our inferiors, for upon the Earth we do not regulate @@ -6524,7 +6486,7 @@ world also containing only one kingdom, and that not a movable one, but, on the contrary, as fixed as is your vegetable kingdom?</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> How! Animals and men held +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> How! Animals and men held down by roots?</p> @@ -6554,7 +6516,7 @@ planet belonging to the constellation Cygnus, situated in the zone of the Milky Way. This singular world is inhabited solely by trees.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> That is to say, that so far only +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> That is to say, that so far only plants are there, and neither animals nor intelligent speaking beings?</p> @@ -6568,7 +6530,7 @@ speak.</p> <div class="sidenote">Reasoning plants.</div> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But this is impossible! Pardon!—I +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But this is impossible! Pardon!—I would say improbable, incomprehensible, and entirely inconceivable.</p> @@ -6577,7 +6539,7 @@ really exist—so much so, that I myself belonged to them. Fifteen centuries ago I was a tree possessed of reason.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But tell me, how can a plant +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But tell me, how can a plant reason without a brain, and speak without a tongue?</p> @@ -6588,7 +6550,7 @@ process you yourself think, and by what transformation of motion your soul translates its mute conceptions into audible language?</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I am seeking, O Master, but I +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I am seeking, O Master, but I fail to find, the material explanation of this fact, however ordinary it may be.</p> @@ -6688,7 +6650,7 @@ were the first forms of vegetation. On the rocks, live creatures for which one has no name. There, sponges swell out. Here, a tree of coral lifts up itself. Further -on, the Medusæ detach themselves and float +on, the Medusæ detach themselves and float like balls of jelly. Are these animals? Are these plants? Science does not answer.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span> They are animal-plants, zoophites. But life @@ -6743,7 +6705,7 @@ have been fixed by the feet. Such is the state of the annular world in which I lived fifteen centuries ago in the heart of the Milky Way.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Of a truth, this world of men-plants +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Of a truth, this world of men-plants astonishes me more than the previous one, and I find it difficult to picture to myself the life and manners of these singular beings.</p> @@ -6782,7 +6744,7 @@ and invariably affectionate. Nor are these unions always consanguineous; impregnation can even be effected at a distance.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But, after all, how can they communicate +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But, after all, how can they communicate their thoughts if it be true that they think? And besides, master, how was it possible<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span> for you to recognise yourself on this @@ -6866,7 +6828,7 @@ sweetness and refinement, which might often serve as a model to the dwellers upon the Earth.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> How is it possible, master, that +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> How is it possible, master, that they see without eyes, and hear without ears?</p> <div class="sidenote">Light and @@ -6912,7 +6874,7 @@ others are in touch with perceptions entirely foreign to those which are received by terrestrial organs.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> When you spoke to me just now +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> When you spoke to me just now of the men-plants in the world of Cygnus, the idea occurred to me to ask if earthly plants possess a soul?</p> @@ -6972,7 +6934,7 @@ forces which constitute and form the human body is the human soul, governing all the ganglionic souls, which are subordinated to it.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I must frankly own, most wise +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I must frankly own, most wise instructor, that I fail to clearly grasp this theory.</p> @@ -6981,7 +6943,7 @@ an example which will demonstrate the truth of all I have said, and convince you that it is a fact.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> A fact? Are you, then, a reincarnation +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> A fact? Are you, then, a reincarnation of the Princess Scheherazade, and have you been fascinating me with a new tale from the "Arabian Nights"?</p> @@ -7046,7 +7008,7 @@ all together above the horizon. There are day Suns and night Suns; that is to say, they have there no night properly so called.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Really? Are there in the heavens +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> Really? Are there in the heavens double and multiple Suns?</p> <div class="sidenote">Inhabitants @@ -7072,7 +7034,7 @@ their form.</p> <p>Have you ever seen, in botanic gardens, the gigantic tapering plant the <i>Cereus giganteus?</i></p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I know this plant very well. Its +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I know this plant very well. Its name comes from its resemblance to the wax tapers, placed in three or more branched stands, with which churches are lighted.</p> @@ -7087,7 +7049,7 @@ system.</div> some likeness to this form. Only they move slowly, and maintain an upright position by means of a process of suction analogous to that -of the ampullæ of certain plants. The lower +of the ampullæ of certain plants. The lower part of the vertical stem, where it rests on the ground, is slightly elongated, like a starfish, with little appendages which fix themselves to @@ -7121,7 +7083,7 @@ fall altogether to the ground. The personal existence of the individual comes to an end. His molecules separate and are dispersed.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> They disintegrate, and the atoms +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> They disintegrate, and the atoms fly apart, like truants from school.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Just so. I can recollect this disintegration @@ -7138,11 +7100,11 @@ of the fall of its sister molecules of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20 long branches, and it arrives at the surface of the ground solitary and independent.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> This mode of dissolution would +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> This mode of dissolution would sometimes be a very convenient proceeding here below. To get out of an embarrassing -situation, for example a conjugal scene <i>à la</i> -Molière, or a bad quarter of an hour such as +situation, for example a conjugal scene <i>à la</i> +Molière, or a bad quarter of an hour such as Rabelais describes, or a mournful situation such as the scaffold for an execution, one would only have to let loose one's constituent atoms, @@ -7208,12 +7170,12 @@ and has united round itself, in a microcosm, a whole world of beings, who have not any consciousness of their individuality.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> On the planet of Orion nature itself +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> On the planet of Orion nature itself is then in a state of absolute Republicanism.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lumen.</span> Republicanism governed by <i>law</i>.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But when a being finds itself thus +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> But when a being finds itself thus disintegrated, how can he afterwards reconstitute himself as a whole?</p> @@ -7227,7 +7189,7 @@ its place. The directing molecule draws the other from a distance, as the loadstone attracts iron filings.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I can easily picture to myself the +<p><span class="smcap">Quærens.</span> I can easily picture to myself the spectacle of this Lilliputian army, when summoned by a whistle, drawing to its centre to organise a reunion; all the little soldiers climbing @@ -7464,7 +7426,7 @@ eye. This is undefined at first, and almost blind in an elementary state, like the eyes of the trilobites and of the fishes of the Silurian period, but it develops into the admirable -eyes of birds, of the vertebræ, and of man. +eyes of birds, of the vertebræ, and of man. The senses of smell and taste proceed from the nerves in the same way. These last two senses, with that of touch, are the most primitive, @@ -7844,7 +7806,7 @@ in space.</div> <p>The conclusions of this discourse are based -entirely on this principle, my dear Quærens. +entirely on this principle, my dear Quærens. I have endeavoured to show you that the physical law of the <i>successive transmission of Light</i> in space, is one of the <i>fundamental elements @@ -7934,7 +7896,7 @@ wonders which there await you.</p> <p>Page 32, Sidenote, "h" changed to "e" (the place where he was in)</p> -<p>Page 34, Footnote, "3,14159" changed to "314,159" (314,159 × 2, it)</p> +<p>Page 34, Footnote, "3,14159" changed to "314,159" (314,159 × 2, it)</p> <p>Page 139, repeated word "the" deleted. Original read (Even in the the same system)</p> @@ -7947,382 +7909,6 @@ Andromeda)</p> <p>Page 179, "oxgyen" changed to "oxygen" (called their oxygen)</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lumen, by Camille Flammarion - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LUMEN *** - -***** This file should be named 43835-h.htm or 43835-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/8/3/43835/ - -Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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