Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Name: Vril: The Power of the Coming Race; The New Utopia — Chapter VII
Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Vril: The Power of the Coming Race… (1871)

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“Vril: The Power of the Coming Race; The New Utopia — Chapter VII”, published in 1871, is a work by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It explores elements such as Zee, vril and host.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race… (1871)

“ Then turning to his daughter, he said, "And you, Zee, will not repeat to any one what the stranger has said, or may say, to me or to you, of a world other than our own." Zee rose and kissed her father on the temples, saying, with a smile, "A Gy's tongue is wanton, but love can fetter it fast. And if, my father, you fear lest a chance word from me or yourself could expose our community to danger, by a desire to explore a world beyond us, will not a wave of the 'vril,' properly impelled, wash even the memory of what we have heard the stranger say out of the tablets of the brain?" ”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race… (1871)

“ Now, was it possible that he had never been on the surface of the earth, or could he only be referring to communities buried within its entrails?
My host was for some moments silent; his countenance showed a degree of surprise which the people of that race very rarely manifest under any circumstances, howsoever extraordinary. But Zee was more intelligent, and exclaimed, "So you see, my father, that there is truth in the old tradition; there always is truth in every tradition commonly believed in all times and by all tribes." ”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race… (1871)

“ Mortified to see, by the faces of my listeners, that I did not make the favourable impression I had anticipated, I elevated my theme; dwelling on the excellence of democratic institutions, their promotion of tranquil happiness by the government of party, and the mode in which they diffused such happiness throughout the community by preferring, for the exercise of power and the acquisition of honours, the lowliest citizens in point of property, education, and character. ”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race… (1871)

“ These subterranean philosophers assert that by one operation of vril, which Faraday would perhaps call 'atmospheric magnetism,' they can influence the variations of temperature—in plain words, the weather; that by operations, akin to those ascribed to mesmerism, electro-biology, odic force, &c., but applied scientifically, through vril conductors, they can exercise influence over minds, and bodies animal and vegetable, to an extent not surpassed in the romances of our mystics. ”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race… (1871)

“ My host then proceeded to question me as to the habits and modes of life among the races on the upper earth, more especially among those considered to be the most advanced in that civilisation which he was pleased to define "the art of diffusing throughout a community the tranquil happiness which belongs to a virtuous and well-ordered household." ”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race… (1871)

“ I have seen individual specimens of nearly all the races differing from our own, except the primeval savages who dwell in the most desolate and remote recesses of uncultivated nature, unacquainted with other light than that they obtain from volcanic fires, and contented to grope their way in the dark, as do many creeping, crawling and flying things. ”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race… (1871)

“ To all such agencies they give the common name of vril."
Zee asked me if, in my world, it was not known that all the faculties of the mind could be quickened to a degree unknown in the waking state, by trance or vision, in which the thoughts of one brain could be transmitted to another, and knowledge be thus rapidly interchanged. I replied, that there were amongst us stories told of such trance or vision, and that I had heard much and seen something in mesmeric clairvoyance ”

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