Night of Memory, The Forgotten City

 

It is the Dead that govern. The living only obey. And if the Soul sees, after death, what passes on this earth, and watches over the welfare of those it love, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World…”, “Thus we obey the dead; and thus shall the living, when we are dead, for weal or woe, obey us.” ( Forgotten Books )