LIFE ON MARS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8134, 8 May 1906, Page 3

LIFE ON MARS.

M. CamilleFlammarion, the larnoua French astronomer, draws au extremely attractive picture of life on Mara. After pointing oat that no one can predict what whether Paris will have next week, while it is known (with the utmost oertainty what ki id of weather any country in Mara will have a fortnight in advance, M. Flammavion goes on to say:—"There are many advantages in favour of the Martians. First of all, it would be difficult for the human species there to be less intelligent that ours, seeing that we do not know how to ojntrol ourselves. The second reason is that progress is an absolute law which nothing can resist. The Inhabitants of Mars being older than we are, may represent what we shall be in several million years. A third circumstance in their favour is that they are in a better posi tion than «e are to free themselves more quickly from the heaviness of matter, as the Martians wnigfa less. Their years are twice as long as those on earth. Finally, the climatic conditions on Mars appear to be much moro agreeable." M. Mammarjon deolarea that the hypothesis that Mars is inhabited by an Intellectual race more superior to our own is growing stronger every year in [proportion as astronomical observtaions become more and more precise.