596. (41.) Are the spirits of the third sphere happy? _Ans._ Yes. 597. (42.) Does happiness become greater as the rank of the spirit becomes higher? _Ans._ Yes. 598. (43.) Do spirits of infants go to the seventh sphere? _Ans._ Yes. 599. (44.) Does an infant dying before noticing any thing go to that sphere? _Ans._ Yes. 600. (45.) Does it require care analogous to that given to infants in this world? _Ans._ It is carefully instructed. 601. (46.) Do infant spirits come down and reside among kindred more or less, visiting, as it grows older, those mundane scenes which may compensate it for its loss of opportunities by premature death? _Ans._ Yes. 602. (47.) Does not the inability to communicate with its kindred cause it to be unhappy under these circumstances? _Ans._ It is not rendered unhappy, in consequence of the peculiar manner in which such circumstances act upon the spirit mind. 603. (48.) Do such spirits, as for instance, those going to the other world while children, but having attained mature age, say forty, become companions for their parents and friends in the spheres who may have died after their maturity, or is there a too great simplicity or childishness? _Ans._ In purity and simplicity they are contented to live. 604. (49.) Is the love of children, who have died very young, as great to their parents and relations who remain in this world as if they continued to live in their society? _Ans._ Greater. 605. (50.) Is there a deference shown to spirits on the same plane commensurate with their superiority in learning, science, and wisdom? _Ans._ Yes. 606. (51.) The object of marriage in this world being manifestly the perpetuation of the species, consistently with the preservation of refinement and the welfare of offspring, and there being no such motive in the spiritual world, how can there be any motive for any such indissoluble ties? _Ans._ Between spirits joined by matrimony in the spheres there is a greater blending of mutual self-love into one common sentiment than in any other friendship. 607. (52.) Have spirits any fluid circulating through an arterial and venous system, which is subjected to a respiratory process, analogous to that which our blood undergoes? _Ans._ Yes. 608. (53.) As spirits are weightless, is not this fluid devoid of weight? _Ans._ Yes. 609. (54.) Has it any colour? _Ans._ No. 610. (55.) Does the gaseous or ethereal matter respired by spirits pervade the mundane sphere? _Ans._ Yes. 611. (56.) Do mortals breathe it as a means of sustenance to their spiritual organization while encased by this “mortal coil?” _Ans._ Yes. 612. (57.) Does it supply the nervous system? _Ans._ Yes. 613. (58.) Is it communicated to inferior animals? _Ans._ Yes. 614. (59.) Do fishes require atmospheric oxygen while swimming, (water consisting of 8 parts in 9 of pure oxygen,) in order to get at the spiritual gas associated with the former?