text:  As I lay on the ground and gazed on the unusual splendour of the stars the thought occurred to me Why should doubts of a future state ever come into the mind of man? Why should he hesitate about its reality? Was it not there before his eyes? Were not the very regions of future existence already within the reach of one of his senses? Why might they not yet be within the reach of all? Of course I do not give you all the vague thoughts which passed through my mind; but the permanence power and astonishing multitude of those bright worlds impressed themselves on me with a new force