into that popular passion or ferocity which precedes its decea

Gn. Chapter XXVI. After the conversation with Zee just recorded, I fell
into a profound melancholy. The curious interest with which I had
hitherto examined the life and habits of this marvellous community was
at an end. I could not banish from my mind the consciousness that I was
among a people who, however kind and courteous, could destroy me at any
moment without scruple or compunction. The virtuous and peaceful life of
the people which, while new to me, had seemed so holy a contrast to the
contentions, the passions, the vices of the upper world, now began to
oppress me with a sense of dulness and monotony. Even the serene
tranquility of the lustrous air preyed on my spirits. I longed for a
change, even to winter, or storm, or darkness. I began to feel that,
whatever our dreams of perfectibility, our restless aspirations towards
a better, and higher, and calmer, sphere of being, we, the mortals of
the upper world, are not trained or fitted to enjoy for long the very
happiness of which we dream or to which we aspire. Now, in this social
state of the Vril-ya, it was singular to mark how it contrived to unite
and to harmonise into one system nearly all the objects which the
various philosophers of the upper world have placed before human hopes
as the ideals of a Utopian future. It was a state in which war, with all
its calamities, was deemed impossible,--a state in which the freedom of
all and each was secured to the uttermost degree, without one of those
animosities which make freedom in the upper world depend on the
perpetual strife of hostile parties. Here the corruption which debases
democracies was as unknown as the discontents which undermine the
thrones of mona

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