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  <f302r.P.10;W>     the planet mars i scarcely need remind the reader revolves -
  <f302r.P.11;W>     about the sun at a mean distance of miles -
  <f302r.P.12;W>     and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half -
  <f302r.P.13;W>     of that received by this world it must be if the nebular -
  <f302r.P.14;W>     hypothesis has any truth older than our world and long -
  <f302r.P.15;W>     before this earth ceased to be molten life upon its surface -
  <f302r.P.16;W>     must have begun its course the fact that it is scarcely -
  <f302r.P.17;W>     one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated -
  <f302r.P.18;W>     its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin it -
  <f302r.P.19;W>     has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of -
  <f302r.P.20;W>     animated existence =

  <f302r.P.21;W>     yet so vain is man and so blinded by his vanity that no -
  <f302r.P.22;W>     writer up to the very end of the nineteenth century ex -
  <f302r.P.23;W>     pressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed -
  <f302r.P.24;W>     there far or indeed at all beyond its earthly level nor was -
  <f302r.P.25;W>     it generally understood that since mars is older than our earth -
  <f302r.P.26;W>     with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter -
  <f302r.P.27;W>     from the sun it necessarily follows that it is not only more -
  <f302r.P.28;W>     distant from times beginning but nearer its end =

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