I know that they belong to the scheme of the workl

every bit as much as we now belong to it, and as all will henceforth belono; to it.

3. Afar they stand — yet near to me they stand,

Some with oval countenances, learned and calm.

Some naked and savage — Some like huge collections of insects.

Some in tents — herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,

Some prowling through woods — Some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping, fdling barns.

Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.

4. Are those billions of men really gone ? Ai'e those women of the old experience of the earth gone ?

Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us ?

Did they achieve nothing for good, for themselves?

5. I believe of all those billions of men and women that filled the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour, here or elsewhere, invisible to us, in exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, and out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinned, in life.

6. I believe that was not the end of those nations, or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me ;