easily understood by human creatures born under the rules and
regulations of this little dark world of ours.

There are, in certain other worlds, such wide extremes of bodily
formation and mental capacities, that a picture of them in word or art
would only be unbearable and in some instances decidedly revolting, just
because we are trained here to one set of standards and chained to one
surface of world conditions. It will be different in the after-death
life to those who are wise enough to be pure and good in this world.

To make the book as practical as possible we have given a picture of
some worlds where human life is inferior to ours, and of others where it
is vastly superior,--saying nothing of the millennial life which we
found in far off space.

Comparisons are made throughout the book between the life, habits, and
customs of other worlds and our own. In picturing the low life of
certain worlds we are led to see what a highly favored and greatly
civilized people we are, and in describing the human achievements of
certain other worlds we are led to see how short a distance we have
traveled in the path of human glory and civilization.

We have also endeavored to set forth in this humble volume the common
relation of all rational creatures of all worlds to one Infinite
Creator. We do not question the truth of this fact, and those who ask
for proof must wait to find it.

We hope that this book will be inspiring to every thoughtful mind who
loves to learn more and more of the great system of intelligent life of
which the human creatures of this world form one link in the chain. If
the reading of this volume should open to your mind numberless
suggestions and compel you to ask a host of questions, perhaps you will
do as we have done,--spend a long time in training your wings to be
swift enough to take the journey yourself. If you will not do this, you
must patiently wait until the clods of clay are shaken off, so that your
free spirit may go out to live the life more vast in other worlds.

We pray that the highest kind of good may result from the truths here
advanced. If this shall be accomplished, we shall have our best reward
for having given this book to the printing press.

Truly yours,

THE AUTHOR.

December, 1904.

INTRODUCTION.

It may seem like great exaggeration to say that this is one of the most
interesting and profitable books that has been placed upon the American
book market for man