There were some present who were upright, but had never thought about how heaven is, imagining like others that heaven was just simple. But when they were asked whether they would not aver that more varieties of everything exist in the other life than in the world, and more societies, and more things than a person on earth ever thinks-then on being gifted with reflection, they began to marvel that they had thought about nothing but joy, but that they had never thought about the existence of countless varieties making up societies. 1748, 29 Aug.