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 rheir rcat m^l had fall jbuted 3] I of strong! |of honofti I ouforce4| himseHl Jss in lil%\ |l to say, lor father, 1 lattractivii ind if thftl Jsoinething I lu or than I lother audi a portioit I e Maistral s "a« J)ody for a I |ble charac- able in liit I' Happy he Tikind iiinifs high and tvM, leven year* I tâ€" wheu hi»l â- or had hep I jp, a Iarji;e| live estates! |compli3hed 3od sense, |ice enabled I ind, as the Ind toil, she I ler children] |e into life, in a man- Ives, and to! Jly guide of I .bits. Mrs. I jr her little n lessons of y, and her] the.maxinul by her son, ng his most I sacred m- treiigth and j n, the moth- j Iioly, and' that of thei 3 very bean- n to a coun- neieeii chU- fc her sons,) ler and con- i and v.isestj ic home over ce and hap- 1 IS any home j V and full ofi The"odiou«] was not suf- int nn theirj y ^vl.â- â€¢e rules,| OiK- of these^ â-  "f iier little| tlieir child-l nsel in theirl 3 the patient I jompauion ofj saiil to her, ead the samel eplied, "Be- neteen times i r." So deep! )n the hearts :nanhood shel n, for that] •e sl'.e died." )y her to hetS •s that theyj jveu in early! â-  Methodists.! vhen a scho-| '•! would! lie to throw! iti(thof byl npiove e\ ery I uiispeakablel yair re3X)ec-| she went od| 3n, "in and the so-l iind Charleal 5 ;nippobed tol th..' rusult flfl agnage. e words cofl it has bee words are( jsieal origiui nature of tkl ;, the Saxonf in the work e pronouns, iliary verbs,! leir changes,! ies, the dlTi-f atural sofflij he modes commone uliest cluld-l iKc, the cob{ designat ionj of tbel J, contemplj ir are for the rds indicat-I n and coin-l rms employj )ral phuo :he Engli I by uc th's inhal of the There 1 words, ;aut sourc f the glo â-  its ver' I market' ew, ,h, It Malay, cher in tSuit: he Blindmaa'sHfeW?!^^^ f 80 b thei The narrative to which" thJ^vaUJBV^ro- iductory was found among the |fepeiff»f tBe I late Professor S. Erastus Larrabee, and, as r an acquaintance of the gentleman to vbom they were betjneathed, I wa« requaeted to I prepare it for publication. This turiied oat a very easy task, for the document provdd of so extraordinary a character that, if pub- lished at all, it should obviously be withwit change. It appears that the professor did really, at one time in his life, have an at- tack of vertigo, or something of the sort, under circumstances similar to those des- cribed bv him, and to that extent his narra- tive may be founded on fact. How soon it shifts from that foundation, or whether it does at all, the reader must conclude for himself. It appears certain that the pro- fessor never related to any one whfle living the stranger features of the experience here narrated,°but this might have been merely from fear that his standing as a man of science would be thereby injured. Edward Btllamy. THE PnoFESSOK'S NAKRATIVE. At the time of the experience of which I am about to write, I was professor of astron- omy and liigher mathematics at Abercrom bie College. Most astronomers have a spe- cialty, and mine was. the study of the planet Mars, our nearest neighbor but one in the Sun's little family. When no important ce- lestiid phenomena in other quarters de- manded attention, it was on the ruddy disc of Mars that my telescope was of tenest focused. I was never weary of tracing the outlines of its continents and seas, its capes and isl-.nds, its bays and straits, its lakes and mountains. With intense interest I watched from v.eek to week of the Martial winter the advance of tlie polar ice-cap to- ward the equator, and its corresponding re- treat in the summer testifying across the gulf of space as plainly as written words to the existence on that orb of a climate like our own. A specialty is always in danger of becoming an infatuation, and my interest in Mars, at the time of which I write, had grown to be more than strictly scientific. Tlie impression of the nearness of this planet, heightened by the wonderful distinctness of its geography as seen through a telescope, appeals strongly to the imagination of the astronomer. On fine evenings I used to spend hours, not so much critically observ- ing as brooding over its radiant surface, till I could almost persuade myself that I saw tlie breakers dashing on the bold shore of Kelper land, and heard the muffled thunder of avalanches descending the snow- clad mountains of Mitchell. No earthly land- scape had the charm to hold my gaze of that far-off planet, whose oceans, to the unprac- ticed eye, seem but darker, and its conti- nents lighter spots and bands. Astronomers have agreed in declaring tliat Mars is undoubtedly habitable by being liiie ourselves, but as may be supposed, I was not in a mood to be satisfied with considering it merely habitable. I allow- ed no sf)rt of question that it was habited. What manner of len:;s these inhabitants iiii;^lit belfound a fascinating speculation. The vaiioty of types appearing in man- kind even on this small Earth makes it most presi'.mptuous to assume that the citizens of dilierent planets may not lie char- acterized by diversities far profounder. AVliereiii such diversities, coupled with a general resemblance to man, might consist, whether in mere physical differences or in diirerent mental laws, in the lack of certain of the great passional motors of men or the possession of (jiute others, were Aveird themes of never-failing attractions for my mind. The El Dorado visions with which the virgin mystery of the New World inspired the early .Spaiush explorers were tame and prosaic compared v."ith the speculations winch it was perfectly legitimate to indulge, when the problem was the conditions of life on another planet. It was the time of the year when Mars is most favorably situated for observation, and, anxious not to lose an hour of the pre- oious season, I had spent the greater part of several successive nights in the observatory. I believed that I had some original observa- tions to the trend' of the coast of Kepler Land between Lagrange Peninsula and Christie Bay, and it was to this spot that mj' observations were partially directed. On the fourth night other work detained me from the observing-chair till after mid- night. When I had adjusted the instrument and took my first look at Mars, I remember being unable to restrain a cry of admiration. The planet was fairly dazzling. It seemed nearer and larger than I had ever seen it be- fore, and its peculiar ruddiness more strik- ing. In thirty years of observation, I re- call, in fact, no occasion when, the absence of exhalations in our atmosphere has coin- cided with such cloudlessness in that of Mars as on that night. I could plainly make out. the white masses of vapour at the opposite edges of the lighted disc, which are the mists of its dawn and evening. The snowy mass of Mount Hall over against Kepler Land stood out with wonderful cleai-ness, and I could tmmistakably detect tlie blue tint of the ocean of De La Rue, which washes its base, â€" a feat of vision of- ten, indeed, accomplished by star-gazers, though I had never done it to my complete satisfaction before. I was impressed with the idea that if I ever made an original discovery in regard to Mars, it would be on that evening, and I believed that I should do it. I trembled with mingled exultation andanxiety, andwaa obliged to pause to recover my self-control. Finally, I placed my eye to the eye-piece, and directed my gaze, upon the portion of the planet in which I was specially interest- ed. My attention soon, became fixed and absorbed much beyond my wont, when ob- serving, and that implied no ordinary de- gree of abstraction. To all mental intents and purposes I was on Mars. Every faculty, every susceptibility of sense and intellect, seemed gradually to pass into the eye, and become concentrated in the act of gazing. Every atom of nerve and will power com- bined in the strain to see a little, and yet a little, clearer, farther, deeper. The next thing I knew I was on tiie bed that stood in a comer of the observing- room, half raised on an elbow, and gazing intently at the door. It was broad daylight. Half a dozen men, including -several of the professors and a doctor ttam the village, were around me. Some were trying to make me lie down, others were asking me what I wanted, wMle the doctor was urtiing me to drink some whiskey. Mechanically spelling their offices, I pointed to the door and ejaculated, " President Byxbeeâ€" dom- ing," giving expression to the' one idea which my dazed mind at that foment contained. Uown i.'latood on the of prodigioiu idief I fdl [aw. ooned while in "^t anpeartd tiiat I had the obwrfing-chair, tli| had been soand by the ji ing, my heaci^lleui foi cf|«, as if adH cpld, figi^ p ' lB#coiiye BfiAiyS I and should soon have forgotten the epi aode but fot a very interesting oonjecturw idw ni;«eU» liad which had Suggested itself in connection' awa^mg had recalltl with it. This was nothing lew t)i|«rthat, while I lay in that swoon, I wai -in a con- scious state outside and. independent of the body, and in that state received imjurâ€" ions and exercised perceptive powers. For this extraordiaan theory I had no othot aviABbce tlKui th^ i^ of my knowlege in the mo- ment bfawakingthat Pre*ident Byilide was coming op th stairs. Sat slight as this clue was, it seemed to m^ unmistakable in its significance. That knowledge was cer- tainly on my mind on the instant of aronaing from the swoon. It certainly coald not have been there before I fell into the swoon. I must therefore have gllimed it in the mean- time that is to say, I mhat have been in a conscious percipient state while my body was insensible. If such had been the case, I reasoned that it was altogather unlikely that the tri- vial impression as to President Byxbee had been the only one which I had received in that state. It was far more probable that it had remained over in my mind, on wak- ing from the swoon, merely because it was the latest of a series of impressions received while outside the body. That these impres- sions were of a kind most strange and start- ling, seeing that they were those of a disem- bodied soul exercising faculties iriore spirit- ual than those of the body, I could not doubt. The desire to know what they had been grew upon me, till it became a longing which left me no repose. It seemed intoler- able that I should have secrets from myself, that my soul should withold its experiences from my intellect. I- would gladly have consented that the acquisitions of half my waking lifetime should be blotted out, if to exchange I might be shown the record of what 1 1 a 1 seen and known during those hours of which my waking memory showed no trace. None t! .e less for the conviction of its hopelessness, but rather all the more, as the perversity of our human nature will have it, the longing for this forbidden lore grew on me, till the hunger of Eve in the Garden was mine. Constantly brooding over a desire that I felt to be vain, tantalized by the possession of a clue which only mocked me, my physi- cal condition became at length afl^ected. My health was disturbed and my rest at night vras broken. A habit of walking^ in my sleep, from which I had not suflFered since childhood, recurred, and caused me frequent inconvenience. Such had been, in general, my condition for some time, when I awoke one morning with the strangely weary sensation by which my body usually betrayed the secret of the imposition put upon it in sleep, of which otherwise I should have suspected nothing. In going into the study connected with my chamber, I found a number of freshly written sheets on the desk. Astonished that amy one should have been in my rooms while I slept, I was as- tonished, on looking more closely, to observe that the handwriting was my own. How much more than astonished I was on reading the matter that had been set down, the reader may judge if he shall pursue. For these written sheets apparently contained the longed-for but despaired-of record of those hours when I was absent from the body. They were the lost chapter of my life or rather not lost at all, for it had been no part of my waking life, but stolen from that sleep-memory on which myster- ious tablets may well be inscribed tales as much, more marvellous than this as this is stranger than most stories. It will be remembered that my last recol- lection before awaking in my bed, on the morning after the swoon, was of cont-em- plating the coast of Kepler Land with an unusual concentration of attention. As well as I can judge, â€" and that is no better than anyone else, â€" it is with the moment that my bodily power succumbed and I became unconscious that the narrative which I found on mv desk begins. THE DOCUMENT FOUND ON MY DESK. Even had I not come as straight and swift as the beam of light that made my path, a glance about would have told me to what part of the universe I had fared. No earth- ly landscape could have been more familiar. I stood on the high coast of Kepler Land where it trends southward. A brisk west- erly wind was blowing and the waves of the ocean of De La Rue were thundering at my feet, while the broad blue waters of Christie Bay stretched away to the southwest. Against the northern horizon, rising out of the ocean like a summer thunder-head, for which at first I mistook it, towered the far- distant, snowy summit of Mount Hall. Even had the configuration of land «nd sea been less familiar, I should none the less have known that I stood on the planet whose ruddy hue is at once the admiration and puzzle of astronomers. Its explanation I now recognized in the tint of the atmo- sphere, a coloring comparable to the haze of Indian summer, except thq,t its hue was a faint rose instead of purple. Like the. In- dian summer haze, it was impalpable; and without impeding the view bathed all ob- jects near and "far in a glamour not to be de- scribed. As the gaze ^med upward, how- ever, the deep blue of space so far overcame the roseate tint that one might fancy he were still 6n Earth. As I looked about me I ^w many men, women, and children. They were ini no re- spect dissimilar, so far as I can see, to the men, women, and children of the Earth, save for something almost childli^, in., the untroubled serenity of their ^aoes, nn- furrowed as they were by any trace of care, of fear, or of anxiety. This extraor- diqarv yontJifalness of aqiect made it'diffi- cnl%-iiKieed,' Bat« by careful -scrtttiny, to distinguish the young from the middle-aged, matdrity from advanced years. Time seem- ed to have no tooth on Mu I was gazing about me, admiring .^be crimstm-lighted worid, and thefle-people #ho appeared to held happiness by a tenure so mndi firmer tlan men's when I heard the words, " You are welcome," tad, tumiiig, saw that I had been accosted by a man With the statare and bearing A middle je^, tiiong^ his cotmtenance, ^like e otiher faces wfaiehl had noted, i^nderfolly com- bined the strength of a imafn wifhthesCTOi- ity of a child's. I thanked him and said. of ooone, that I waa to meet And not anty tbat, hot I may â-  ready ill a â- â-  « «â€" ^rmiaint iHi throofj^ a mutual friin^ fnUmntl^Auafy. He waa here Jaatmoa^i, and I mat hua JM that time. We talked rf youandyonri ter^at in o«r dmet I told Urn I ezpectad yofL" "Bd^^r stiigii^ .tfiait^ tarn saia 'j«Mi»4tiiat6waamiir^^"-^^^^' ^^ on ya-expett-i ence, juat as Iconid recall nothing of minej, When will men learn to interrogate the dream soul of the marvels it sees in its wan- derings? Then he will no longer need to improve his telescope to find out the secrets of the universe. " Do your people visit the Earth4n the same., manner 7^ I asked my comp^lion. .. 'f CettaiEd]^" he replied " but theie we find no one able to recognize us and converse with us as I am conversing with you, although myself in the waking state. „, You, aa yet, lack the knowledge we posaett of the apiritual aide of the hffnan nature which w« share with yoK** "That knowledge mustliave enalf^ed you to learn much more of the Earth than we know of you," I said. "Indeed it has," he replied. " From visitors such as you, of whom we entertain a concourse constantly, we have acquired familiarity witii your civilizstion, your history, your manners, and even your literature and languages. Have you not noticed that I am talking with you in Eng- lish, which is certainly not a tongue indi- genovB to this planet?" "Among so many wonders I scarcely observed, that,' Ii an- swered. 'JForages," pursued my cooipan- ion, •* we have been waiting for yon to ini- prove your telescopes so as to approximate the power -of oors, after which communica- tion between the planets would be easily es- tablished. The progress which you make is, however, so slow that we expect to wait ages yet." " Indeed, I fear you will have to," I replied. «' Our opticians already talk of having reached the limits of their art." "Do not imagine that I spoke in any spirit of petulance," my companion resumed. "The slowness of your progress is not so remarkable to us as that you make any at all, burdened as you are by a disability so crushing that if we wra-e in your place I fear we would sit down in utter despair," " To what disability do you refer " I asked. " You seem to be men like us." " And so we are," was the reply, " save in one parti- cular, but the difference is tremendous. Endowed otherwise like us, you are desti- tue of the faculty of foresight, without which we should think our other faculties well-nigh valueless.' "Foresight!" I re- peated. " Certainly you cannot mean that it iagiven you to know the future?" " It is given not only to us," Was the answer, "but so far as- we know, to all other intelligent beings of the universe ex'ept yourselves. Our positive knowledge extends only to our system of moons and planets and some of the nearer foreign systems, and it is conceiv- able that the remoter parts of the universe may harbor other blind races like your own; but it certainly seems unlikely that so strange and lamentable a spectacleshould be duplicated. One such illustration of the ex- traordinary, deprivations under which a ra- tional existence inay still be possible ought to suffice for the universe," " But no one can know the future except by inspiration of God," I said. "AU our faculties are inspirations of God," was the reply, " but there is surely nothing in foresight to cajise it to be so regarded more than any other. Think a moment of the physical analogy of the case. Your eyes are placed in the front of your heads. You would deem it an odd mistake if they were placed behind. That would appear to you an arrangement calcu- lated to defeat their purpose. Does it not seem equally rational that the mental vision should range forward, as it does with us, illuminating the path one is to take, rather thSin backward, as with you, revealing only the course you have already trodden, and therefore have no more concern with ' But it is no doubt a merciful provision of Providence that renders you unable to real- ize the grotesqueness of your predicament, as it appears to us. " "But the future is eternal " I exclaimed. " How can a finite mind grasp it?" " Our foreknowledge implies only humanf acuities," was the reply. " It is limited to our indi- vidual careers on this planet. Each of us foresees the course of his own life, but not that of other lives, except so far as they are involved with his." "That such a powei as you describe could be combined witli merely human faculties is more than our philosophers have ever dared to ^dream," I said. "And yet who shall say, after all, that it is not in mercy that God. has denied it to us If it is a happiness, as it must be, to foresee one's happiness, it must be most depressing to foresee one's sorrow, failures, yea, and even one's death. For if you fore- see your lives to the end, you must antici- pate the hour and manner of your death, â€" is it not so " " Most assuredly," was the reply. ' ' Living would be a very precarious business, were we uninformed of its limit. Your ignorance of the time of your death impresses us as one of the saddest features of your condition." "And by U9," I an- swered," it is held to be one of the most merciful. 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