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PREFACE. ofAni^a, url as 1 lun^ ^f '^ ^ ""^ "--' bamgs daily p.ove ™ost safe Lt ™ '°"' °^ '"""»" P^ges are intended to show ' .^^ ^^' ^°"°^">S "••-^ is likewise individuated 1 ", ' "' P°"""« 'haf a'- to a „nch higher dile'r' "' '^^^'°P^^ as the hundreds of n^m^"'^/ '^''T°'^''''^-Uk; -ir a^r :ef s™rr^"-'-- '^ modern science. Should tL cone, ''"'''^P"'^^ /,„, ,f ■t yet remains for some-one '^ "' ''" '^'^P^'^d > conclusions, or to sTate c lariv ^^ '" "'^P^ove these possible) more i„ accorrf» ^ ^"^ °'^^' '^eory m -d undisputed /„",'"'^"'=^ «'''h such well-Jown HENHY WENTVVORTH MONK '' ^™''" SXKBBT, Fu.„.„ R„,, January, 1883. London, S.W. 901053 E. WORLD-LIPB. INTRODUCTION. A NIMAL life and vegetable life appear to be the only ^ ^ two kinds of life at present known and understood Py 5"^",'. "^vertheless it is quite possible that a third kind of life may actually exist, and not only exist, but be also in Its nature and character as immeasurably superior to ammal h^, as animal life generally is to vegetable life. Ihe difference between animal and vegetable life is evidently so enormous, (generally speaking), that we might be disposed to dispute the existence of vegetable hie, did not a comparison of the living growing tree, or plant, with the dead tree, or plant, compel us to admit that vegetable life does actually exist, although vegetable life is doubtless devoid of any kind of consciousness such as generally appertains to animal life. • *i,^"^ *^^ *^^i "^Pf^ remarkable facts about animal life IS the wonderful wideness of its range; at one end of th© scale being animals which can scarcely be distinguished from vegetables, so devoid are they apparently of all consciousness or of sensation of any kind ; while at the other en t the scale are animals which manifest «yo?m- swe intellect which enables them to understand continually more and more of the wonders of the universe. The progressive intellect peculiar to man is evidently the same quality of intellect which was manifested in the creation, or origmation, of the various animal and vege- table organisms during the geological periods of the lr-tl!lfSl?: 1'?! fiinPjest organisms being invariably _--j^i..„ ,^^.^^^ and iiiLcnvaras tne more complex :) con- sequently we may very reasonably conclude that the one an7ir" l^^^ "^''^^y ^'^^ developtnent of the other and hat the human progressive intellect which, at presen; in intimate association with the highest form of anima organism, manifests its prognssive character bv ere Vm^ or ong.nat.ng.the simplest manufacturerfirst and VW with sails ^nrl ^t.'''''T' ^"^'^ ''''^ "^^«' '^''ips machine V t. f "" u^''^ ' propelled by conu.licated with thp7;r.f ;'^ ^P^'y hei-eafter. in intimate association with the earth itself, manifest a similar /I'.^msii'. character by creating, or originating, first the simplest foJmsT^ animal and vegetable organisms, and afterwards he mor^ complex-as illustrated so cleady during The Jo Well periods of the earth's history. ^ geological nnc Jm ""k^ ^^ ^^^^^.' "°^ ^^" ^^'^ human mind ever ftselP ^ Th'.?""' intimately associated with the earth itselt ? That is a question very easy to ask but nnf hll any means so easy to answer, simply ^on account of the extremely limited degree of our comprehension at nresent^ nevertheless, although it may be difficult fo us It^present hereafter hern'''^""r''^"'/^* ^^^^"^^^^^ ^'«^««« ««Kay tiereafter become intimately associated with the earth If self, (rnuch as the indimduai human ndnd isTow intLate v associated with the individual human bodyO; yeM il ea y enough to prove that mind, like in kind o the aggre. gate human mind, though superior in degree has certainly been intimately associated with our earth for thousands of years. The creation or origlnltion of the various animal and vegetable organisms, dur"n^ the fstTr?vaTthe'''T^ as Clearly as the creation or origination of canoes boats ships, steam vessels. &c.. demonstrates the presence of th4 «2^.,«z;. human mind in intimate associft on w!th the proTeTs oflre'^r^ '^^ ''"^^ ^"^^ manufactures were in man «^^? """^^^V^" """^ Origination, although probably no man at present knows exactly How the human mind is inti mately associated with the human body ! ThTh^mmm^nd t^ evtdently no part whatever of the human body yTtT slo intimately associated with the living huma^n b^ody that k livinrhuman^K'^^^ ^""'"'^J' ^' ^^^^ ' whether the Jiving human body goes to Europe, Asia. Africa or America ; to a palace, or to a gaol-the individual human mind in intimate association with that particular living human body must needs accompany it. — In like manner, during the geological periods, when the earth was doubt- less then, as now, travelling round the sun at the rate of more than a million miles a day, the creative mind, in intimate association with the earth, certainly accompanied it in its rapid coiirse, (much as the human mind easily and naturally accompanies the living human body); other- wise the various forms of animal and vegetable organisms could not possibly have been created or originated, any more than human manufactures could possibly have been created or originated without the human mind accom- panying the human body, while occupied in creating or originating these manufactures. As we are thus compelled to admit that, as a matter of yd, the human mind is certainly in intimate association wu'i the living human body, thouglj we cannot under- stand or explain exactly how ! and as we are compelled to admit also that profrycssive intellect (simi! n in kind to the human intellect, however superior in degree), was also certainly in intimate association with the earth itself during the geological periods, though, of course, we cannot either understand or explain exactly how ! We might as well admit also that it is at least extremely probable that the progressive intellect proved to be in intimate association with the earth itself is simply the development of progressive intellect precisely similar to that manifested at present by the aggregate human mind ; and that consequently the aggregate human mind, which now manifests its progressive character in the creation or origination of the various manufactuf^s, may hereafter be individualized and localized by the earth itself, and may then re-create the various animal and vegetable organisms in their regular order and gradation, in a manner similar to that illustrated in the geological periods of the earth's history— supposing that at some future time all the present varieties of animal and vegetable organisms shall have been obliterated from existence by natural causes not generally understood it present by man. Admitting that the aggregate human mind may thus naturally develop into the creative mind, and be here- after individualized and localized by the earth itself; we fhe vlible unTvtrse !Xi^r^1^'"^ ^"^«"' P"P-<= "C the universe ssimolvthr^ '/"^ wonderful fact that mind, and progr^Zetme^^Z"^ and ocaIi2ing.«„K„; individualizes and local £ thf if "^'"'^ as animal life eressive intpll»^t localizes the human mind and pro- associalion with ^r^"/." we mrfa^LT^'^'^'^ '" thecreativemindmavdpvonnti ^ ^ imagine that in association ^th mrlHif^ '''" '™" """'^ wonderfully WorU LKjcanse H^in'f '"u^'^P"'^ '"« --'<=nce of oltlmtl^-^-^"-^^^^^^ admitted It on!e ^odd r ifo°" fn-f^'Jile, and this is much indeed from a^niafw^ r"""'^' '^°«= differ very e^ren:ro7:'eSe'we":r'" f^l '" '""^ °' ""^ -t"' so likewise sSdlliV;'! ^ « « " 'art\"'\u'cclffT^ uv°n^"w:x "' '"^ ^^'"^' -'^'-« or^o^rirLifr/;".!^ to .o^f^r &*Xte:a'slLTea\Ts1 Z:?? '" the moo/is7ubtkss as " deal ".l" ''■ ^^^^-J^^ntly may fairly be said to tl ,1 /^ "•". ^'""»' <"■ P'ant brelth. irsap-and a '"dead woHd'^. °^ ^''''" f '«'• world, as a deL tree a'rgues^livTngte"^"' " """^ the vast hrLhf '^''"' "'■ """ ^^^ innumerable worlds in the earth are generally living frees ^"^ ""^ 2ndly. That the various living worlds are generallv utilized for individualizing and localizing creatiTmind and progressive intellect; as certainly Is the various TottT-f the human family are now ^generally utilLed XrtsTvt^;^^^^^^^^ ^°^^^^^^"^ '^^ ^-- --^ and 3fdly. That the aggregate human mind is but the t^mfri"'-"5-'"/"\^^yS' ^"^ ^^ ^^sti^ed at some future time to be individualized and localized by the earth itself as certainly as the human mind is at present individuafzed and localized by the human body. 4thly. That the Creative mind identified specially with any one of the living worlds suspended in space mav freely as the members of any particular family, city, or country upon earth do now communicate with ea^h other 5thly. Ihat the intelligent recognition of world life must certainly tend towards the extension of our compre- hension mora' as well as intellectually, to a degree commensurate ^vith our advanced knowledge of the material universe ; which is doubtless the great special need of this remarkably materialistic age ^ «=..,« 1 ^""^^^ Life may be illustrated and demonstrated in several ways ; and may also be viewed with much ifrnnnc ' t""^ ^'!^^ advantage, in its various aspects : I propose to write a series of articles on this subject (the fs'han hfl'^%^1'"^ merely mtroductory), meanwhile, L .t / ^ .u ^"^ ^^^"^ ""J any difficulty which may appeal the^rytf World IT' ^" ^"^^"^^^"^ ^^^^^^^^ '^ '''^^ WORLD-LIFE. UNIVERSAL ALTERNATIOJf. numberless trees in the forest are t^npr.ni-^^ ^^ *^^ progressive intellect ""=^"^'"S '"e i;«4» mmd and creatieSinIf„1i'b%'fS1.^„?ir ^V'T' "'^ and localized by the eartCseff th^ }^ individualized as certainly as the human mind 'f°"f°ds of years hence, lized and iLalized b^h^ humail^olr^"' '"'""'"^• oneoTth'^livw'^orldr^",'"""'"'' '^^»««^d ^'"^ any living worlds susZdfd ZI ~«>mun.cate with the other themembeS7a'ivnartcX/'^f easily and (reely as now communicate L^reactothe?"^' "'^' °' ^""'"'y "^^ must'cerLinlJte1d&d?7hrr"'™ °' W°''e possibly expended with corresponding advantage > It IS mdisputable that the sun must certainly be minus precisely tiie amount of force expended by it from day to day ; that consequently a time must come, sooner or later 10 clue to the future use lf,t '"*/'*«'''«'' /"^ gives us the up in our ear"h a^d in h^ IT ^T""' "^ '»'« ^'°«d had the benefit of the sun's li^LtYnS'h""^."'''* ''^^ thousands of vear« ^""'■"gn' and heat for so many must certainlyf S'sometore't 1'°''. "'^^""'' P'='"«'^ force of light and h^^f /?♦.''■*""'" ""^ "="0™°"= grand prin^fple "f Universa Iltr„„?^"" ' ^^'^ /.= "'« earth" tself .n""^ "''''"dualued and located by The the ^rth° and ^th^"^ f^"^ti°n actually occurs, so that surfaces for thousands nfl' P'^""/ '"''I '=°"='«"'= ">eir of light and Sfo fh/^ ?'" f'""'=h.ng an abundance svstem /i u "^ «'■*'" central world of our solar enabled ?o observe J?n±?l''^ """ ^","' "=^'f' »'*" be or creation of anima " nH ^ the process of the origination , which will «°„ be'Thi trf J!f,'4? ^"?^"'^'"^ '"'he sun, — o5-c4vvunLrai iiaDicaDie world oi our 11 solar system, having a vast ocean of water about its surface, instead of b-ing enveloped with fire as at present. xxP^rJ"? .^^ .^^°^^ P^""^ o^ this coming alternation, our World-Life will be in its childhood or youth (as it were) the serious practical work of our World-Life not beginning m earnest until the subsequent alternation naturally occurs ; again reversing the condition of our solar system., so that the sun again becomes the great source of light and heat, and the revolving planets again the habitable worlds, as at present. Su stupendous a change as this alternation in the solar system occurring periodically (with the regularity of the minor alternations of day and night, summer and winter, &c.,) would perhaps be absolutely incredible to such very limited comprehensions as Iwman beings now possess, did not the telescope already reveal to us many solar systems in the reverse condition to that of ours at present. It is now very well known that hundreds of "double, triple, quadruple, and multiple stars" are "physically connected " together, so that they "revolve about each other" in very limited periods of time (much as do the planets of our solar system) . Is there any good reason whatever to doubt that these are generally solar systems in the reverse condition to that of ours at present ? The planets of these solar systems being evidently the sources of light and heat revolving about their great central habitable world. The distance being so enormous, of course, it is impossible for us to see their central habitable world, however great that may be; nevertheless, we may see plainly enough the light of the several planets, which, of course, appear to us to be re- volving about each other. Should this very simple and obvious explanation be disputed, or denied ; the alternative is evidently that we must suppose that there are a vast number of sources of light and heat (more or less like our sun,) revolving about each other, and expending their enormous forces of light and heat for no adequate purpose whatever ! anyone who could possibly entertain so preposterous a supposition as this, would certainly manifest but little knr.wlpdo-f^ or understandiiig of " the economy of nature." 12 nizeJas on?ofTh?'^°" ^J ^^-'^ " '' "°^ generally recog- nized as one of the grand universal laws. For thousands of years our earth has evidently been storinruD ?he growing Plants or trees ; but the prodLious force strja up in rock, such as limestone, chalk. Act does ^ot appear hydric orSS T'T''"''^- ^^^ -ellknown^^S^y!: li^hrLred un f i u^ "' '°™/ ^^"^ °^ ^^^ ^^^^""t of iignt stored up in a small piece of me or chalk xvh\rh when subjected to the intense heat of the ow Ldrfc flame gives forth an exceedingly brilliant 1 glit foVh'ours with scarcely anj^ perceptible dimmution of the subs ance oil" sZlcTe,'':'^ "^^^^ ^ ^-^" pencflS Wo? cnalk, subjected to the intense heat of the oxv-hvdric iTwn r^"^"". '^ ^^"^^"^ ^"^ continuous a light a basis very brilhant%V^^'^- ^' "^^^ ^^^^" '^ esLate l^w ^!Fu } !!■ """^ c^'ntinuous a li^ht would be the natural one ISk^l'ffh'" the millions of square mi/es of l!mt scone, chaJk. &c., about the suriace of our world to thf^ gTelJTo ?h:t'"'nf ^ °' '"?^"^ hydrogr ancfoxy! gen equal to that well-known to be contained in the vasi- ocean of water which covers the greater port on of the earth s suriace generally for miles in depth. . Evidently concerted inJo""'"'"'? ""^ ^^^^ ^'^'^ certainly b^ converted into a miniature sun, and would doubtless continue so until the great force of lighlheat &c now stored up in the various strata of rock about it's surfac^ i^^r^r^o:^-^''^ ^^' probably ^^^tiuL^S mTnTthonlrH' "^."^ '' "°^ certainly sto^;ed"pt the' S It f' "r '^''^'^ "^^^^^ ^f ^h^Jk, limestone. &c enough th'"f'' f r' T'^ ■ ^^ «^^^^dy see clearly coal ? but wh.'t ""^ 1^ thousands of millions of tons o^f coal , but what are the few thin seams of coal comoarc with the vast masses of chalk, limestone, &c Sf Tn comparison with such vast masses ; all the 7.o.k%. ^ the world are evidently but as a few thin shlvin^', o? Id little bundles of kindling wood, compared with all the rast forests of the earth ! To comprehend the eventual use of such vast masses of chalk, limestone, &c., we need only to bear in mind that the great force of light, heat, &c., stored up in the various strata of rock, for so many miles in depth, about the surface of our earth, has evidently been derived from the sun, and that while the earth and the other planets have been storing up all this force, the sun has certainly been expendingits force during all these thousands ofyears: consequently a time must come, sooner or later, when the sun shall have exhausted its great store of force;— for continual expenditure without renewal of supply, cannot possibly go on for ever, and there is no evidence whatever that the sun has had any opportunity for renewing its supply of force during all these thousands of years past, in which the earth and the other planets have been storing up the force derived from it,— consequently we require to know, what naturally occurs when the enormous force stored in the sun is at last so far exhausted that the sun can no longer iurnish light and heat sufficient for the requirements of the many habitable worlds revolving around it ? This great and most important question may not now be so very difficult to answer satisfactorily, for the main facts of modern science are now so generally well known, that there need be no great difficulty in Derceiving clearly enough that such vast force is already stored up in the various strata of rock about the surface of our earth, that were all the water of the ocean but once decomposed into its constitutent gases, hydrogen and oxygen, the earth itself must immediately become a minia- ture sun, and in proportion to its size, doubtless quite as capable, as is the sun, to furnish light and heat, &c., for thousands of years, until all its strata of chalk, limestone, &c., should be consumed, and nothing remain but the substance of primary rock in a molten condition, and other substances in a gaseous condition. Under such circumstances, of course, the burning hydrogen must soon begin to form an ocean of water ; for the great store of lorce L}eing cxnausLSu, tneir woulu tusn uS no xonger heat enough about the surface of the earth to render the formation of such an ocean impossible. J4 It- hdmen%asru ,^"°T" ^""'^ ^^^t water h ■ weJJ Jy cer^ ^'"-•ed force ofl[°h?'°'- 'housanS of „S ^« "Pon "he f n ; that animal fSd T'^ ''"« ■'« re umed ' """ ^" 'he m that great ro„; ?" vegetabie «/» I'^" again to the an abundance o?f?' ''"'■''' °f our sokr LT'"''«P°"'We 'ace, when it a^lj'^^l^n'ay be again stn.S*'^'"; acd that , The well kn^ ''^'^°»«. infrs?ui !l"e."P°n i's sur with b.utav1V^s°:]'?t"r" Ws "(To^pS'l^'^worl"! hy a piece of darlrii *";'^^e<>Pe when the evl'^' Perceived ,'^t^!L°^ 'he va/j:f>re probably ?a\7edlffr«ed 15 present a//..«a//,«. the agL^^^^ P"""S the be but the creat ve mfnH P u " "^'"^ appears to coming «//'.S rthe^'TgV^^^^^^ .^"""^ the mprtyoc ,v.*^ *!, ••*"=. ''ggregaie numan mind naturallv sun be.ng then the great central hab?trb fworld a "d^ h^ revolving planets the sources of light and heit< ^t creative m nd PvidpnMv n^r^ i,. ^ neat; j lor owy in serious "LJrl'^kuntn'hT,"^,!"''"",'" ^"^age reverts t„ its present condiUon an oc^an oFwatTr ''^''" prevailing in each of the habitaWe nlanet" Jh .K ^^'" :fat"p'j;i:r^ '"^ ^'-' -»'-■ -t"oT,iXn'd'LS': ness^of' tTe^'eTrth's'TrLf r"- '""' "'^ ""'" '" '^ick- =r-it'H^*t?|re^^^^;X^^^^^^^^^ ^hfrhl;r/-Si'eV^i-/r'" ^^^"^"'^ °^«'"^=" to tt""}"^ "Z^ '^° the whole solar system as it apnears sun or w'j^r"" """^ ■"'i-nately associated wXihl about it 1 Y ?i '^^ habitable worlds revolv nl tf e^io^oTs ptp-o'riio'.'^^f tCitt-;-^^r ''■ ■ °"4 that our earth,-and^he'other planets-'ar? coL^rtivdy 16 quite close to it ; for. though 90 or loo millions of miles must naturally appear to us an enormous distance ; he sun Itself bemg we l.known to be more than three-quarters of a million miles in diameter, the distance of our earth and the planet Mars, from the sun is actually less than hpS'n^T.'rf.r ""^ *^^ '^"' l^'^ P'^"^^^ Venus and Mercury being less than roo. and the great planet Jupiter less than 600 diameters of the sun in distance j consequently we are as close to the sun relatively, and as much withi n its range practically, as any object is to a cannon when within so many hundred diameters of the cannon therefore any great change, suddenly occurring in the condition of the sun. may reasonably be expected to be accompanied with a corresponding change i,i the con! dition of the planets, which are evident];. a very close to It in comparison with its enormous magnitude. It is wel. known that our earth is in constant electrical communication with the sun ; extraordinary elec r ca disturbances on earthevidently corresponding with ex ra ordinary changes in the '• sun spots.'' Simifardectr ica communication is doubtless also constantly maintained between the sun and the other planets. It'^is surely not thft'^ f^' "' ' u'^''^^"y^ *° P^^^^'^« plainly enough l.t I V ^'^^'^'^f '" '^'^ solar system thus constitute one family (as it were) in constant communication by elec" trical agency ; for though the creative mind in intimate association with each of these worlds probably enjoys a much more rapid means of communication than electricity affords ; yet electricity is the one agent of inter-planetary communication which human beings may noS under^ stand, in some degree at least. u^ ^^ }u^ aggregate human mind must ultimately become the creative mind in intimate association with our earth itself. I propose to point out, in my next commu- n cation, some ofthe gradations by which the aggregate human mind merges into the creative mind, so as to enjoy nf iJ?^f/r* v°"'^"^' °^ y«^^^ *he very great advantage oJWor/d Ltfe, as naturally as the human mind at present enjoys, and is mdmdualized, localized, and developed by means of animal life. pcu uy ':' ,jW . >■'■ ' ^ ^ . -.r* , "--'J ■^ * ■■iVl,.i-.t/