Show WHAT AFTER THE LAST SLEEP most important of all questions as a material philosopher seca it Is considered in considering our destinies beyond the grave we need have no reason to linger too long over these apkari tlona or these revelations even though they should really be incontestable and to the point they would seem all told to be only the incoherent end precarious manifestations of a tory state they would at best prove it we were bound to admit them that a reflection of ourselves an after vibration of the nerves a bundle ol 01 emotions a spiritual silhouette a grotesque and forlorn imago or more correctly a sort of truncated and uprooted memory can after our death linger and float in a space where noth ing remains to feed it where it bradu ally becomes wan and lifeless but where a special fluid emanating from an exceptional medium succeeds at moments in galvanizing it perhaps it exists objectively perhaps it subsists and revives only in the recollection ot certain sympathies after all tt would be not unlikely that the memory which represents us during our life should continue to 0 o so for a few weeks or even a few years after our decease this would explain tho evasive and deceptive character ol 01 those spirits which pos only a mnemonic existence are naturally able to interest them only in matters within belr reach benco their irritating an ma energy in clinging to the slight est facts their sleepy dullness their incomprehensible alfi ignorance and all the wretched absurdities ties which we have noticed more than a the century magazine |