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Azul signed to h the radiance of the ring, which was like a sun woven into a circle, we soon left Saturn far behind us, and alighted on Venus Here seas, arden, in which the bloom and verdure of all worlds seemed to find a home Here were realized the drearaceful forth and godlike beauty of thespring of all the civilization of this radiant planet was the love of Nature and Art united
There were no wars--for there were no different nations All the inhabitants were like one vast family; they worked for one another, and vied with each other in paying ho thelad obedience; and he was a Poet, ready to sacrifice his throne with joy as soon as his people should discover a greater than he For they all loved not the artist but the Art; and selfishness was a vice unknown Here, none loved or edded save those who had spiritual sympathies, and here, too, no creature existed who did not believe in and worship the Creator The sas existed in Jupiter, the planet we next visited, where everything was perfor hundreds of ether with perfect ease through an electric , an art of which the dwellers on Earth are so proud, was acco in the way of science, art, and invention known to us was also known in Jupiter, only to greater perfection, because tethened by an electric force which never failed
Frouided me to many other fair and splendid worlds--yet none of theht drawback--some physical or spiritual ailment, as it were, which had to be combated with and conquered All the inhabitants of each star longed for soher--and therefore all had discontent They could not realize their best desires in the state of existence they then were, therefore they all suffered disappointment They were all compelled to work in some way or another; they were all doomed to die Yet, unlike the dwellers on Earth, they did not, because their lives were more or less constrained and painful, cooodness of God--on the contrary, they believed in a future state which should be as perfect as their present one was imperfect; and the chief aim and object of all their labours was to becorand result--Eternal Happiness and Peace