The Vril-ya unite in a conviction of a future state, more felicitous and more perfect than the present.

If they have very vague notions of the doctrine of rewards and punishments, it is perhaps because they have no systems of rewards and punishments among themselves, for there are no crimes to punish, and their moral standard is so even that no An among them is, upon the whole, considered more virtuous than another.

If one excels, perhaps in one virtue, another equally excels in some other virtue; If one has his prevalent fault or infirmity, so also another has his.

In fact, in their extraordinary mode of life.

There are so few temptations to wrong, that they are good (according to their notions of goodness) merely because they live.
They have some fanciful notions upon the continuance of life, when once bestowed, even in the vegetable world, as the reader will see in the next chapter..