Life in a Thousand Worlds eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 193 pages of information about Life in a Thousand Worlds.

Life in a Thousand Worlds eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 193 pages of information about Life in a Thousand Worlds.

As I found it on Jupiter, so I found it here.  The human eye is so constructed that it seems to have more than an X-ray power, for it can look through this atmosphere as readily as we can peer through ours.

The air of Saturn, being so thick, contains much natural nourishment, and the inhabitants are sustained largely by breathing.  This reminded me of the manner in which our fish flourish in the waters of our globe.

Marvelous indeed are the possibilities of life.  I now had before me new problems to solve, for natural laws have but a limited expression in our own world.  Here science puts on new garments, but they are all cut in harmony with universal laws.

Woman is the ruling genius of this planet.  Being untrammeled for a few thousand years, she has attained a higher glory than her sex has reached in any world of our Solar System.

As you scan the honor rolls of Saturn, reading the list of the eminent leaders in science, art and philosophy, you will readily observe that woman has forged to the front.  She also sits upon the principal thrones of temporal power.

Woman’s beauty on Saturn is surpassing.  It reaches a higher degree of perfection than any of the myriad types of beauty on this enchanting world.  When I first opened my eyes on these scenes, I imagined that I had reached Heaven, but, to my chagrin, I soon found the black marks of sin that stain the whole planet.

The illustrious inventors of Saturn, living and dead, make a long list, which is headed by the name of Veorda, a woman of marvelous intellect.  She looked into the mysteries of nature with a shrewd, wizard eye, but, unfortunately, lost her life early in a bold experiment with explosives.  However, before she reached her much-lamented end, she had won enough honor to outshine all inventors in the whole history of Saturn.

She was the sole inventor of all explosives, and she had learned how to operate them without making any noise or smoke.  This proved a valuable aid to factories and quarries, and particularly in the handling of fire arms, of which Saturn has a very strange collection.

Before Veorda was born the flying machine had been invented and used.  But aerial travel was soon abandoned owing to some terrible accidents that had occurred.  During the earlier part of her career Veorda labored assiduously until she overcame a few difficulties and thereby perfected the flying machine.

[Illustration:  An Air Ship on Saturn.]

It was a day of international rejoicing when her perfected machine sailed over the governments of Saturn.  The invention stood every test and at once air traffic was resumed and maintained.  When this woman died the governments erected to her memory the finest and costliest monument that now stands on the whole world of Saturn.  Of course, I went to see it.  As I stood studying the poetry of the pillars, I looked overhead and saw one of the immense aerial ships carrying a pleasure party to a distant point.  I cannot describe my feelings as I lingered in the presence of the sleeping dust and saw the imperishable influence of her thoughts still working for her, in a carnal sense, “a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”

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