The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-08-27


unintermittent sense of the magnetic
current, which is far stronger in Mars
than on the earth, and far more COM
plicated, and more thoroughly under
stood.
when any object is too delicate
and minute to be examined by the
sense Of touch and sight, the Martian
shuts his eyes and puts it against the
pN OF his stomach, and Knows all
about it. even it's inside.
In the absolute dark, or with his
eyes shut, and when he stops his ears
ne is more intensely conscious of
what Immediately surrounds him
tnan at any other time, except that
all color-perception ceases; conscious
nors only of material objects, but of
what is passing in his fellow-Mar-
mans mind-and this for an area of
maily hundreds of cubic yards.
IN the course of it's evolutions this
extraordinary faculty-which exists
on earth in rudimentary state, but
only among some birds and fish and
insects and in the lower forms of ami
maj life-has developed the Martian
mind in direction very different
from ours, since no inner life apart
IRON the rest, no privacy, no conceal
ment is possible except at distance
involving absolute isolation; not even
thought is free; yet in some incom-
prehensible way there is, as mat
ter7of-fact really greater freedom
OF thought than is conceivable among
ourselves; absolute liberty in abso-
lutte obedience to law, a paradox be-
yond our comprehension.
"Hheir habits are simple as those
we attribute to the cave-dwellers dur
ing. the prehistoric periods of the
| earth's existence. But their moral
| sense is so far in advance of ours that
we haven't even terminology by
which to express it. These exem-
| plary Maritans wear no clothes but
the exquisite fur with which nature
has endowed, and which constitutes
a part of their immense beauty.
"They are great engineers and ex-
cayators, great irrigators, great work
ers in delicate metal, stone, marble,
and precious gems (there is no wood
to speak of); sculptors and decorators
of the beautiful caves, so fancifully
and so intricately connected, in which
they live, and which have taken thou
sands of years to design and eXcavate
and yentilate and adorn. and which
they warm and light up at will in q
beautiful manner by means of the
tremendous magnetic current"
One of the most remarkable facts
in connection with the inhabitants o.
| Mars is the manner of their death
which by the way, they look upo1
farxaore cheerfully than we do. "Fol
when the life of the body ceases ant
the body itself is burned and it's ashe
scattered to the winds and waves, tn
infnitesimal, imponderable, and in
L ucblIuCtlDlC oOluOUullrS VIC Nuli Oh
soul is known to lose itself in sun
beam and make for the sun, with al
its memories about it, that it ma
then receive further development
fitting it for other systems altogethe
beyond conception; and the longer
has lived in Mars the letter for it
eternal life in the future"
| This theory, fantastical as it seem
when considered apart from the rc
maice, bears curious and suggestiv
resemblance to recent discover
made by Professor Alexander Grahar
Bell, the distinguished scientist. Fo
sometime past Professor Bell has bee
experimenting in the hope of findin
medium to transmit sound tha
would enable him to construct a telt
phone without the use of wire, an
thus to annihilate space. This me
dunn, it is said, he has discovered i
a shaft of light. The instrument
which is called the "Photophone," ha
not as yet been perfected, but wbe