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 



