_Ans._ Yes.
599. (44.) Does an infant dying before noticing any thing go to that
sphere?
_Ans._ Yes.
600. (45.) Does it require care analogous to that given to infants in
this world?
_Ans._ It is carefully instructed.
601. (46.) Do infant spirits come down and reside among kindred more
or less, visiting, as it grows older, those mundane scenes which may
compensate it for its loss of opportunities by premature death?
_Ans._ Yes.
602. (47.) Does not the inability to communicate with its kindred cause
it to be unhappy under these circumstances?
_Ans._ It is not rendered unhappy, in consequence of the peculiar
manner in which such circumstances act upon the spirit mind.
603. (48.) Do such spirits, as for instance, those going to the other
world while children, but having attained mature age, say forty,
become companions for their parents and friends in the spheres who may
have died after their maturity, or is there a too great simplicity or
childishness?
_Ans._ In purity and simplicity they are contented to live.
604. (49.) Is the love of children, who have died very young, as great
to their parents and relations who remain in this world as if they
continued to live in their society?
_Ans._ Greater.
605. (50.) Is there a deference shown to spirits on the same plane
commensurate with their superiority in learning, science, and wisdom?
_Ans._ Yes.
606. (51.) The object of marriage in this world being manifestly
the perpetuation of the species, consistently with the preservation
of refinement and the welfare of offspring, and there being no such
motive in the spiritual world, how can there be any motive for any such
indissoluble ties?
_Ans._ Between spirits joined by matrimony in the spheres there is a
greater blending of mutual self-love into one common sentiment than in
any other friendship.
607. (52.) Have spirits any fluid circulating through an arterial and
venous system, which is subjected to a respiratory process, analogous
to that which our blood undergoes?
_Ans._ Yes.
608. (53.) As spirits are weightless, is not this fluid devoid of
weight?
_Ans._ Yes.