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Camille Flammarion. Lumen
Lumen
Table of Contents
FIRST CONVERSATION. RESURRECTIO PRÆTERITI
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III
Footnote
SECOND CONVERSATION. REFLUUM TEMPORIS
I
II
THIRD CONVERSATION. HOMO HOMUNCULUS
FOURTH CONVERSATION. ANTERIORES VITÆ
I
II
III
FIFTH CONVERSATION. INGENIUM AUDAX: NATURA AUDACIOR
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Camille Flammarion
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The soul's powers of vision.
Lumen. You have raised the single geometrical objection which seems to contradict all previous experience. In point of fact, at a certain distance the planets are absorbed in their suns, and our terrestrial eyes would have difficulty in distinguishing them. You know that from Saturn the Earth is invisible. But you must remember that this discrepancy arises as much from the imperfection of our sight as from the geometrical law of the decrease of surfaces. Now, in the world on which I had just landed, the inhabitants are not incarnated in a gross form, as we are here below, but are free beings, and endowed with eminently powerful faculties of perception. They can, as I have told you, isolate the source of light from the object lighted, and, moreover, they can perceive distinctly details which at that distance would be absolutely hidden from the eyes of those dwelling upon this Earth.
