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Show B1 Is Mars Peopled HJ i-ROFESSOR LOWELL'S new book: "Mars as ' "" the Abode of Life," is said to be intensely Mv I interesting. It is not a book of dreams, but ' is described as such a marshalling of known facts as to atmosphere, moisture, etc., as to cause the reader to conclude that all the conditions prevail on that planet which are necessary to sustain life as we understand life's requirements here. To every thoughtful mind such a book will come as but a confirmation of former convictions, for the thought that this earth is the only peopled peo-pled realm among the worlds has always seemed ridiculous. The idea that an all-wise Creator would call into being unnumbered worlds and launch them on their infinite voyages through the seas of space; to serve no purpose save to add proof of the Creator's Cre-ator's power, is in itself an absurdity. It would bo to suppose the Infinite engaged in aimless and useless labor, which is unthinkable. Of the nature na-ture of the intelligence of those who dwell on other worlds that is another thing, and to try by all the enlightenment of science to solve that mystery must be the most fascinating of studies. The ancients wove their legends together and created a heaven and a hell; the Indian dreams of a vast, happy hunting ground where his soul is to go, and his dream is as tangible as was the Olympus or the Hades of the ancient Greek. But John saw the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven; he pictured it and gave the meas-ivements meas-ivements of it and the substance of its mansions end monuments. Warder believes that the spirit of John was cairied away to the sun; that the sun is the tangible tan-gible heaven for those of this planet who are to be saved; that it has a mild semi-tropical climate, cli-mate, that what to mortals seems a rolling world of flame is but the beautiful corona that forever encircles it, "and there is no night there." Mar3 has all the physical attributes of our earth. It is made of similar material; it has its days and nights and seasons, even as our earth has, and quite possibly it is peopled by races kindred kin-dred to oar own. To search for facts to prove or disprove this theory is legitimate and must be filled with delight, and may be one mission of the wireless is, when perfected to bring the real irool' to men. |