3250. Later on it was said about this spirit that they are the kind who cannot tell but that they are the ones [whom they say they are], and can then be imbued with moving conviction. But what it all means I do not yet know. The thought slipped in that if the inhabitants of Mars would not remain in their state, which we call the state of integrity, others from a new earth, who would be similar, would succeed them. For when one [race] perishes, another takes its place, because nothing can be lacking, the Lord so Providing. 1748, 22 Sept.