DOES MAN EXIST ELSEWHERE THAN ON THE EARTH?--DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANETS.--PLURALITY OF THE INHABITED WORLDS 177 CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH. THAT WHICH TOOK PLACE ON EARTH FOR THE CREATION OF ORGANIZED BEINGS MUST HAVE EQUALLY TAKEN PLACE IN THE OTHER PLANETS.--SUCCESSIVE ORDER OF THE APPEARANCE OF LIVING BEINGS ON OUR GLOBE.--THE SAME SUCCESSION MUST HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN EACH PLANET.--THE PLANETARY MAN.--THE PLANETARY MAN, LIKE THE TERRESTRIAL MAN, IS TRANSFORMED, AFTER DEATH, INTO A SUPERHUMAN BEING, AND PASSES INTO THE ETHER 195 CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH. PROOFS OF THE PLURALITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCES, AND OF RE-INCARNATIONS.--WITHOUT THE AID OF THIS DOCTRINE THE PRESENCE OF MAN UPON THE EARTH IS INEXPLICABLE, LIKEWISE THE UNEQUAL CONDITIONS OF HUMAN LIFE, AND THE FATE OF CHILDREN WHO DIE IN INFANCY 202 CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. FACULTIES PECULIAR TO CERTAIN CHILDREN, APTITUDES AND VOCATIONS AMONG MEN, ARE ADDITIONAL PROOFS OF RE-INCARNATIONS.--EXPLANATION OF PHRENOLOGY.--DESCARTES' INNATE IDEAS, AND DUGALD STEWART'S PRINCIPLE OF CAUSALITY CAN ONLY BE EXPLAINED BY THE PLURALITY OF LIVES.--VAGUE REMEMBRANCES OF OUR FORMER EXISTENCES 212 CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. SUMMARY OF THE SYSTEM OF PLURALITY OF EXISTENCES 226 CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. ANSWERS TO SOME OBJECTIONS.--FIRST: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL, WHICH SERVES AS THE BASIS TO THIS SYSTEM, IS NOT DEMONSTRATED.--SECOND: WE HAVE NO REMEMBRANCE OF FORMER EXISTENCES.--THIRD: THIS SYSTEM IS ONLY THE METEMPSYCHOSIS OF THE ANCIENTS.--FOURTH: THIS SYSTEM IS CONFOUNDED WITH DARWINISM 232 CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. SEQUEL TO OBJECTIONS.--DIFFICULTY OF UNDERSTANDING HOW THE RAYS OF THE SUN, MATERIAL SUBSTANCES, CAN BE THE GERMS OF SOULS, IMMATERIAL SUBSTANCES 259 CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. PRACTICAL RULES RESULTING FROM THE FACTS AND PRINCIPLES DEVELOPED IN THIS WORK.--TO ELEVATE ONE'S SOUL BY THE PRACTICE OF VIRTUES, AND BY TRYING TO ACQUIRE A KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE AND ITS LAWS THROUGH SCIENCE.--TO RENDER PUBLIC WORSHIP TO THE DIVINITY.--WE SHOULD PRESERVE THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE DEAD.--WE SHOULD NOT FEAR DEATH.--DEATH IS BUT AN INSENSIBLE TRANSITION FROM ONE STATE TO ANOTHER; IT IS NOT AN END, BUT A METAMORPHOSIS.--IMPRESSIONS OF THE DYING.--THOSE WHO DIE YOUNG ARE LOVED BY THE GODS 269 EPILOGUE. IN WHICH WE SEEK GOD, AND IN OUR SEARCH DESCRIBE THE UNIVERSE 284 [Illustration] THE DAY AFTER DEATH. INTRODUCTION.