The Day After Death Or Our Future Life According to Science

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER THE THIED. WHERE DOES THE SUPERHUMAN BEING DWELL ? E have seen that of the three elements which compose the human aggregate, one only, the soul, re sists destruction. After the dissolution of the body, after the extinction of the life, the soul, detached from the material bonds which chained it to the earth,

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goes away, to feel, to love, to conceive, to be free, in a new body, endowed with more powerful faculties than those allotted to humanity. It goes away to compose that which we call the superhuman being. But where does this new creature dwell ? All students of nature know that life is spread over our globe in prodigious proportions. We cannot take a step, our eyes cannot glance around us, without everywhere encountering myriads of living beings. The earth is nothing but a vast reservoir of life. Examine a blade of grass in a field, and you will find it covered with insects, or inferior animals. But your eyes will not suffice for this examination; you must have rewiirse to the microscope. With the aid of the magnifying glass, you will discover that this blade of grass is the refuge of an active population, which are born, multiply, anddie with prodigious rapidity on their almost imperceptible domain. From this blade of grass you may draw inferences and conclusions respecting the vegetation of the entire globe. The fresh waters which flow upon the surface of the earth are also the receptacle of a prodigious quantity of organic existence. Without mentioning the plants, and the animals which live in the waters of the rivers and streams, and are visible to the naked eye, if you take a drop of water from a pool, and place it under the microscope, you will see that it is filled with living beings, who, though so small that they escape our unassisted vis...

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