In this planet sickness and old age are unknown, and death comes as a quiet sleep.

The period of existence is about two hundred years, according to the Earth's standard of time; and the process of decay is no more unlovely than the gentle withering of roses.

The influence of the electric belt around their world is a bar to pestilence and disease, and scatters health with light.

All sciences, arts, and inventions known on Earth are known here, only to greater perfection.

The three important differences between the inhabitants of this planet and those who dwell on Earth are these: first they have no rulers in authority, as each one perfectly governs himself; second, they do not marry, as the law of attraction which draws together any two of opposite sexes, holds them fast in inviolable fidelity; thirdly, there is no creature in all the immensity of this magnificent sphere who has ever doubted, or who ever will doubt, the existence of the Creator." A thrill of fiery shame seemed to dart through my spiritual being as I heard this, and I made no answer.