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would an event of this kind be con- 

 ceivable? 



Should the person in question sud- 

 denly disappear from our sight and 

 then just as suddenly reappear among 

 us? Endowed with his present organs 

 and senses, which are closely adapted 

 to earthly conditions, such a person 

 could see and comprehend only such ob- 

 jects as differed little or non-essentially 

 from those in the world where we now 

 live. He would possibly be able to ob- 

 serve conditions on other planets in the 

 universe, but he would be utterly un- 

 able to comprehend the things of a 

 world abstracted from the limitations 

 of planetary life. If such a world ex- 

 ists, and some one of us were suddenly 

 removed to it, such a one, amidst all 

 glories with seeing eyes, would yet see 

 nothing; with hearing ears, hear noth- 

 ing; and with feeling senses, feel noth- 

 ing. In order to see and grasp what 

 may exist and happen, the observer 

 himself must have gone through a cor- 

 responding radical change. The con- 



