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There was a scent of wild honey in the air borne from the purple uplands far, far away. "I wonder, oh, I wonder, if they realized that a god is passing close...!" the Irishman murmured with a rising of the heart, "and that here is a great mood of the Earth-Consciousness inviting them to peace! Or do they merely see a yellow sun that dips beneath a violet sea...?"
I know that when a great calamity overwhelms you all as it has done this week, you have no one to comfort you, no one to assure you that no matter how strange and impossible it seems, you have been deprived of your associates for some GOOD cause which will be made manifest in due season, that they have probably been taken to save them from a worse fate than the loss of earth-consciousness in the sea.
The supposition of an earth-consciousness meets a strong instinctive prejudice which Fechner ingeniously tries to overcome. Man's mind is the highest consciousness upon the earth, we think the earth itself being in all ways man's inferior. How should its consciousness, if it have one, be superior to his? What are the marks of superiority which we are tempted to use here?
For that, scientifically speaking, is all that death means the loss of earth-consciousness, -but the gain of another consciousness, whether of another earth or a heaven none can say. But there is no real death inasmuch as even a grain of dust in the air will generate life. We must hold fast to the Soul of things the Soul which is immortal, not the body which is mortal.
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