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The ether-folk are daily raining into the solar orb in untold millions, and to the unceasing concussion is due the radiation which maintains life in the planets, and thus the circle is complete. In spite of their exalted position, the ether-folk do not disdain to mingle with the affairs of terrestrial mortals.
Upon this impregnable basis is reared the scientific theory of a future life. When we die our soul passes into some other terrestrial body, unless we have been very good, in which case we at once soar aloft and join the noble fraternity of the ether-folk. Bad men and young children, on dying, must undergo renewed probation here below, but ultimately all pass away into the interplanetary ether.
It should not be forgotten, too, that he possesses eighty-five per cent of soul to fifteen per cent of body, whereas in terrestrial man the two elements are mixed in equal proportions. There is no sex among the ether-folk, their numbers being kept up by the influx of souls from the various planets.
We do not remember these past existences, it is true; but when we become ether-folk, we shall be able to look back in recollection over the whole series. Amid these sublime inquiries, M. Figuier is sometimes notably oblivious of humbler truths, as might indeed be expected.
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