Page:Immanuel Kant - Dreams of a Spirit-Seer - tr. Emanuel Fedor Goerwitz (1900).djvu/28

10 on the various "dwelling-places" of these "intelligent creatures." He speaks at length about the dependence of the "spiritual faculties " of the various Planet-inhabitants on the grosser or finer, heavier or lighter, matter as determined by the "distance of these abodes from the sun …" The inhabitants of Jupiter or Saturn belong to the "most exalted class of intelligent creatures. These at least have a different Time-idea from ours; they are not subject to death in the same degree that we are …" Man occupies a middle ground between these most excellent and the more imperfect grades of