1 10 THE BORDERLAND OF 8CIENCE. 



himself as the source of a considerable proportion 

 of their heat-supply. I do not say that, in thus 

 exhibiting the Jovian and Saturnian systems in a 

 manner which accords with our ideas respecting the 

 laws of life in the universe, I have given irrefragable 

 testimony in favour of my theory. That theory must 

 stand or fall according to the evidence in its favour or 

 against it. But so- long as men believe that there is 

 design in the scheme of the universe, they will be 

 readier to accept conclusions which exhibit at once 

 the major planets and their satellites as occupying an 

 intelligible position in that scheme, than views which 

 leave the satellites unaccounted for, and present the 

 giant planets themselves as very questionable abodes 

 for any known orders of living creatures. 



(From the Corrihitt Magazine for May 1872.) 



LIFE IN MARS. 



DURING the month of May 1871 a somewhat unusual 

 grouping of the planets was witnessed. Mars, Venus, 

 and Jupiter, the three most conspicuous of these 

 wandering orbs, were visible at the same time. 

 Venus and Jupiter were in the west, where they 

 shone conspicuously as evening stars. Nor was it 

 difficult to distinguish between these rival orbs, for 

 they passed each other on the 12th of May, Jupiter 

 moving sunwards. Throughout the month Venus 



