Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah

which goes to dust, but you sti

shadow of what your

e but a feeble indication of the glorious brightness of worlds, many peopled by being

like the people of the Earth, and as the dawn of day gradually discloses earth's marvellous beauties, so shal

ntry, another people, so that like wise travellers in a distant land, you should for a time lull your own wo

twelve kings called Tshial

being a ruler with full power over them and the whole State, who i

y and deep reflection. The most able men were appointe

wonder the most learned and powerful in the land. Their approvin

w wondrous were the gifts of

world teeming with blessings, so much suffering existed? and why endless riches in the seas,

the most civilized countries of your world. The religion of fire had long been replaced by the worship of

ns ruled, the rich oppressed the poor, and became in turn the victims of their

as the cause of great crimes and loss of power. I asked myself whether men could

ies of intelligence being everywhere extended, the discovery of never-ending fructi

eople had largely increased, whilst our stocks had seriou

ditional numbers and power to the phalanx of nature's workmen, each, with redoubled skill fitly

od men in the different ages of my planet. I applied myself to the knowledge of their great wisdom and many precepts, and sought to discover why, notwithstanding

k, and the theatres of anatomy. I examined into the causes of disease, and the effects of the existing remedies. I visited the prisons, and studied the results of punishment and the causes of crime. I visited the poor in their

eater I became the more I applied myself, ever thirsting for knowledge and the power of doing good, till at

causes of the evils afflicting my planet. I had now to apply remedies for cha

them; but I was encouraged to believe that, "like a chariot at full speed, which turns a narrow and da

e concentrated ardour

yself to the work, and

ea

atitude for some new light choked my utterance, I made the harp speak

ning as easily understood as spoken words. Our harp i