Into a New World

"I was so fully taken up with the matter of the moment that it never occurred to me to speculate beyond. The pressing question was, in what sort of a body were those sparks of sight and sense burning? It was pretty clear i was in a church, and a greater one than i had ever entered before," he writes. "My position, i could tell spoke of funeral rites, or rather the stiff comfort of one of those marble effigies with which sculptors have, from the earliest times, decorated tombs."