44 THE KINGDOM OF MAN 



These speculations lead M. Faguet of the French Academy 

 to further reflections. The Martians who have carried 

 out this vast manipulation of a planet must be not only far 

 in advance of the inhabitants of the Earth in intelligence 

 and mechanical power, as a result of the greater age of 

 their planet and the longer continuance there of the 

 evolution of an intelligent race, but such a vast work 

 and its maintenance would seem to imply a complete 



FIG. 8. 



Drawing of Mars as seen on November i8th, 1894 (Long. 325 on the 

 meridian) by Mr. Perceval Lowell at the Flagstaff Observatory, Arizona, 

 U.S.A., shewing 'twin* or 'double' canals, connected northwards with 

 the ' Mare Icarium.' The two figures here reproduced only give a small 

 portion of the system of canals, oases and seas of the planet Mars, mapped 

 by Mr. Lowell. 



unanimity among the Martians, a world-wide peace and 

 common government. Since we can imagine such a 

 result of the prolonged play of forces in Mars, similar to 

 those at work in our own Earth, and even obtain some 



