A Journey in Other Worlds. a Romance of the Future
A Journey in Other Worlds. a Romance of the Future
Astor John Jacob
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This moon also reflected a pure white ray. The former appeared about once and a quarter, the latter but three quarters, the size of the terrestrial moon, and the travellers immediately recognized them by their sizes and relative positions as Tethys and Dione, discovered by J. D. Cassini in March, 1684. The 6ad face was turned slightly towards that of its companion, and Digitized by VjOOQIC A GREAT VOID AND A GREAT LONGING. 357 it looked as if some tale of the human heart, some romance, had been... engraved and preserved for all time on the features of these dead bodies, as they silently swung in their orbits forever and anon were side by side. " In all the ages," said Cortlandt, " that these moons have wandered with Saturn about the sun, and with the solar system in its journey through space, they can never have gazed upon the scene they now behold, for we may be convinced that no mortal man has been here before." " We may say," said Ayrault, " that they see in our bodies a type of the source from which come all the spiritual beings that are here." " If, as the writers of mythology supposed," re- plied Cortlandt, "inanimate objects wefe endowed with senses, these moons would doubtless be unable to perceive the spiritual beings here ; for the satel- lites, being material, should, to be consistent, have only those senses possessed by ourselves, so that to them this planet would ordinarily appear deserted." "I shall be glad," said Bearwarden, gloomily, " when those moons wane and are succeeded by their fellows, for one would give me an attack of the Digitized by VjOOQIC 358 A JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS.
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