Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy

Miss Ludington's Sister — Chapter III (1884)

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Portrait of Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy,  Miss Ludington's Sister — Chapter III (1884)

“ But that there was any resurrection for her former self--that the bright youth which she had so yearned after and lamented could anywhere still exist, in a mode however shadowy, Miss Ludington had never so much as dreamed.
There might be immortality for all things else; the birds and beasts, and even the lowest forms of life, might, under some form, in some world, live again; but no priest had ever promised, nor any poet ever dreamed, that the title of a man's past selves to a life immortal is as indefeasible as that of his present self. ”
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Portrait of Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy,  Miss Ludington's Sister — Chapter III (1884)

“ The next afternoon Paul arrived. He had not been without very serious doubt as to the manner in which his argument for the immortality of past selves might impress Miss Ludington. A mild melancholy such as hers sometimes becomes sweet by long indulgence. She might not welcome opinions which revolutionized the fixed ideas of her life, even though they should promise a more cheerful philosophy. ”
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Portrait of Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy,  Miss Ludington's Sister — Chapter III (1884)

“ To understand the impression which Paul's letter produced upon Miss Ludington imagine, in the days before the resurrection of the dead was preached, with what effect the convincing announcement of that doctrine would have fallen on the ears of one who had devoted her life to hopeless regrets over the ashes of a friend.
And yet at no time have men been wholly without belief in some form of survival beyond the grave, and such a bereaved woman of antiquity would merely have received a more clear and positive assurance of what she had vaguely imagined before. ”
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