of success, by a Venus voice pouring into our ears, just as though the speaker were close alongside of us. It was a low and monotonous chant, suited to the purpose aforesaid. We replied in the like strain, in token of our common understanding; and thus the two worlds were in established communication, while on Venus' part those educatory steps were at once begun, which were to graduate us into the language of that Higher Life, into which, as we were afterwards more fully to learn, we had now entered.
But having now conducted my record up to the discovery of the duplication, and described the commotion which that discovery gave rise to over our earth, I must reserve, for another chapter, some account of the new and vast world of knowledge, which this grand progress had opened to us.
