avenue lined with trees and adorned with sparkling fountains.
Everywhere the people looked happy. There was neither hurry nor
effort, but the grandest monuments to human action were visible upon
every hand. Such palaces of dazzling marble; such lace-like carvings
in stone; such noble terraces and gardens; and open to all the world
alike.

"See," said Ah Ben, "the people here are of one mind. There is no
wrangling nor struggling for place. These palaces are the property of
the public; and why should they not be, since man's unity is
understood? Exclusiveness is the result of ignorance, but privacy and
seclusion may even be better enjoyed in the conditions prevailing
here than in our own state of existence, and because of the unlimited
power and material to draw upon. No man can crowd another after he
has come to realize that all is mind, and that mind is infinite."

"But where is Guir House, and the estate?" inquired Paul, feeling as
if the whole thing were an incomprehensible illusion.

"They have not been disturbed," the old man answered. "They are where
they always were, _in the minds of those who perceive them, and upon
whose plane they exist_."

"It is too utterly bewildering. These things appear as real as any I
ever saw."

"Appear! They _are as real_. Let us go into one of these bazars, and
see what the people are doing."

They turned through an open doorway resplendent with burnished metal