The people here, with their joy and their way of living and working
together all seem very wonderful to us, yet they remind us that as we
have been shown on the screen, people on the other planets are still
farther ahead in all these things than they are, for here they use
machines for different purposes, while people on the other planets
don't; there they have no need for machines to accomplish the same
results. They say they are related to us closer than other planets are
for they are just a step ahead of us. Yet, as we see it, that step
consists of thousands of years in advancement. In other words, it is
something like this, when we evolve as we should have done long ago, we
will take their place in living as they do, while they will go still
farther, living as the people on the next planet do. In fact, they are
doing that even now, for those who have served the planet well and are
finally called from it in what the Earth man calls death, are always
called to the next planet which they have earned through service.
In the absolute truth, we have been told, there is no stilling of
any brother but rather increased action and steady progression as he
develops or evolves.
Their span of life on Mars is from five hundred to one thousand years.
There are several residential districts in this city to fill the needs
and satisfy the individual tastes of the people. Here, as on Earth,
some families are large in number, some few, while other people enjoy
living alone or with only one other person. Some needs are for large
homes with lawns, others need only small homes and yards, while still
others prefer living in apartments without any yards whatever to care
for. So each person and each family has living quarters which he most
enjoys.
The apartment or community houses vary too. Some have kitchen
arrangements so the occupants may do their own cooking as they enjoy.
Others do not. However there are community dining rooms conveniently
located where the citizens may enjoy their meals, if they wish to have
them prepared for them.
The furnishings within each home and apartment are according to the
tastes and desires of the occupants, with everything up to the latest
development in convenience and comfort.
All lawns are beautifully kept up and they all have marvelous color
displays of growing flowers that seem to have personality to them, a
definite drawing power which certainly does attract us. There is a
variation of colors all blending with each other in a way that reminds
us of a regular rainbow. Speaking of colors, these flowers are almost
as delicate in color as the rainbow when we see it on Earth.
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