Finding conditions
entirely different from anything for which either
scientific or religious teaching had prepared them, it
is no wonder that they look upon their new sensations
as some strange dream, and the more rigidly orthodox
have been their views, the more impossible do they find
it to accept these new surroundings with all that they
imply. For this reason, as well as for many others,
this new revelation is a very needful thing for
mankind. A smaller point of practical importance is
that the aged should realise that it is still worth
while to improve their minds, for though they have no
time to use their fresh knowledge in this world it will
remain as part of their mental outfit in the next.
As to the smaller details of this life beyond, it
is better perhaps not to treat them, for the very good
reason that they are small details. We will learn them
all soon for ourselves, and it is only vain curiosity
which leads us to ask for them now. One thing is
clear: there are higher intelligences over yonder to
whom synthetic chemistry, which not only makes the
substance but moulds the form, is a matter of
absolute ease.
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