Chapter THE TENTH: What Are Our Relations with Superhuman Beings? 122

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.

WHAT IS THE ANIMAL?--THE SOULS OF ANIMALS.--MIGRATIONS OF SOULS
THROUGH THE BODIES OF ANIMALS 138

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH.

WHAT IS THE PLANT?--THE PLANT CAN FEEL.--HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO
DISTINGUISH PLANTS FROM ANIMALS.--GENERAL CHAIN OF LIVING BEINGS 149

CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.

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

THE DAY AFTER DEATH.