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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

CHAPTER LXXI
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To live at all, is a high vocation; to live forever, and run parallel with Oro, may truly appall us.

Toil we not here?
and shall we be forever slothful elsewhere?
Other worlds differ not much from this, but in degree.

Doubtless, a pebble is a fair specimen of the universe.
"'We point at random.

Peradventure at this instant, there are beings gazing up to this very world as their future heaven.

But the universe is all over a heaven: nothing but stars on stars, throughout infinities of expansion.


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