poet of Materialism

  [begin leaf 1 recto] [faded] poet of Materialism—(put this section forward [faded] in Reality and demonstration with the opening.) [illegible]—that this earth is under a constant and process of amelioration—as it always has been—that it, in some manner not perhaps demonstratable in astronomy, expands outward and outward in a larger and larger orbit—that our immortality is located here upon earth—that we are immortal—that the processes of the refinement and perfection of the earth are in steps, Itthe least part of which involves trillions of years—that in due time the earth ^^{beautiful as it is now,} and will be as much beyond ^^{proportionately different from} what it is now, as wh it now is proportionately different from what it was in its earlier gaseous or marine period, uncounted cycles before man and woman grew.—^{—That we ^also shall be here proportionately different from now, and beautiful yet}   [begin leaf 1 verso]