The Cities of the Sun

Excerpt from The Cities of the Sun

In this volume I have endeavored by scientific deductions to create new ideals of man's future life, and give it a habitation and a place.

It is said, "Spirits are not finely touched but to fine issues," and the human being is primarily as well as potentially the spiritual being even in this part of life. Hope, that springs eternal in the human breast, and faith, are the guides and evidence of another life.

He that makes us believe, docs not play false with us in our nature. His inspiration is our conviction, stronger than verbal declaration, ghostly apparition, or bodily resurrection.

Channing said: "The only argument against a future life is the greatness of the conception - it is too wonderful." Ah! but to live at all - this is the marvel, the strange and impossible, the greatest wonder and surprise of all. After this there are no wonders, no more impossibilities. To live one day is as great a miracle as to live an eternity.

"I look to see science prove immortality," said a great modern thinker. "This is the message it will bring to-day, and if not to-day to-morrow. For there is a distinct approach of the two worlds, the seen and the unseen; each of which is flashing its signals to the other."

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