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t was snuffed out at once on leaving the win's 

 body. Things were somewhat different with the 



Venus. 



Venus had for many year* been the object of close 

 research by Schroeter, a moat painstaking observer of 

 itiml, then a well-known observatory in tin- - 



Hr appearance had also been carefully 



I liy I i for nearly twenty years. 



r made oat that he had measured on her surface 



mountains six times higher than Chimborazo, or 



about twenty-throe miles in height The latter conld 



see nothing of th- kind, and poked some grave scien tilic 



.* complained, in a learned paper, 



that he could not " reconcile it to tho friendly nenti- 



mente which the author has always hitherto expressed 



towards me, and whirh I hold extremely precious; 



though perhaps to others it may not have the same 



appearance." Boscov i^ram on tho planets had 



come truo in the CAMC of these astronomers 



"Twin Man and Venus aa thia globe wan hu 

 Ti plain that love and war must rule the w- 



>oter attacks Heracli lisrepresenting, or, on 



insufficient grounds, rejecting his views. Hersehel 

 appears not to have retorted any more than he did 

 when attacked elsewhere by others. It was wise; 

 but he found that the Lady Venus may be as much 

 a source of quarrel, when she walks in unsurpassed 



.tness among the stars, as when she awakens the 



ics of mortal hearts on earth. 

 As this was the only scientific quarrel in Herschel's 



i is worth while to show how small it was. Far 

 were the quarrels which caused annoyance 



