Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16
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forehead was stupendous bit of
human architecture, magnltl-
cent dome of thought. If the Marian brain may be
judged by the head, thought the gentleman real
savant. If the theory of evolution afflicted Mars its
inhabitants could look monkey in the face without
shame
"The Marian extended his hand and spoke in low,
musical voice. do not know what he said; but it had
courteous ring, and gave him my hand His grip was
that of real man. 1t eloquent clasp which said
all sorts of nice things about my visit, and when he
pointed in the direction from which had come drew
an astronomical map from my pocket and pointed to
the earth He studied with eager understanding, and
then led through considerate, respectful throng
into Government building, where had the remarkable
experience of teaching the English language to group
of worlds leaders whose intellect seemed to abb
normally developed, quickly did they understand
and make themselves understood by system that
day shall try to demonstrate before this body.
THE spectacle was profoundly significant and tragic
with the tragedy that inspires Here dying
people of dying world learning of the grandeur of
planet that had hardly yet matured and had yet
its real life to live. They learned of splendid present
which recalled to them only traditions of past. [
learned of present that for us should be prophecy of
the future.
@N1ars is dying world. My eyes have looked upon
planet in its senity. Its atmosphere is leaving, and
without atmosphere there be no life. When
world created Mars old. 1t shows its age
wherever one may turn. Its mountains gone, its
rivers and its the beasts of the field the birds of the
air. The density of its atmosphere scarcely equal to
that of Earths at the height of five miles, and
obliged to live constantly in my helmet The only
animal life on Mars is man.
"Ther struggle for existence is superb. With the
evolution of the planet they have themselves evolution
led Every physical change in the planet forced its
corresponding change the people, Oxygen for instance,
through its strange mixture with mysterious gas has
considerably less volume than oxygen we know it.
"By of this combination the suns rays given
radiation that makes Mars inhabtable otherwise with
the thin atmosphere, there would not be much rada
ton there is highest mountains, and without
radiation there would be- of course, heat and with
out heat life But this element gives the suns
rays peculiarly dazzling light which would quickly de-
stroy the optic nerve. The Martans, knowing this,
promptly neutralzed its effects by dyeing green.
and then made me spectacles of green. Nature
had provided for them by making their complexion and
their eyebas green, although there legend that
once Martians white skinned race.
THERE need be mentioned but one more physical
characteristic that has vital bearing upon the lives
of this people the gravity of the planet By actual
test which shall make clear with other scientific data
in my Forthcoming volumes, found that the gravity of
Mars about onethird less than be exact,
32963 per cent Consider the tremendous significance
of this.
Three times the amount of work can be done
Mars with the expenditure of effort, that be
done on Earth. This may explain in part why those
supendous canals the longest of which is 3547 miles,
although the average is onlY 26S, possible. Add
the decreased labor their mechanical Devices which
make our modern machinery seem