WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



What wonder, then, that this truth, 

 coupled with that of the little speck of 

 time allowed on this earth for the use of 

 any faculty, should always have suggested 

 another life than this to man? In that 

 wider life who knows but that Reason's 

 present subordinate relations to the Will, 

 so that she cannot act except as the will 

 allows, will be reversed, and the will act 

 only as reason prompts. But even now, 

 instead of asking the weak earthly imagi- 

 nation, let us ask Reason herself to tell us 

 what the change inevitably would be if 

 we entered another world with our facul- 

 ties still the same that we have here, but 

 with no limitations in their use. With 

 sight, the farthest constellations would be 

 seen, as no earthly eye is made to see them, 

 just as they are in all their glory; likewise 

 the lineaments of every face could be dis- 

 cerned, though in an assembly of the whole 

 human race, for distance would make no 

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