CHAPTER XVI 



ARE ALL SUNS AND WORLDS INHABITED? 



ARE all suns and worlds inhabited ? This has been 

 a puzzling question to the astronomers, who have 

 had various opinions on the subject. From the 

 laws of electric creation, as I understand them, the 

 affirmative answer seems reasonable and natural. 

 But as we cannot visit these suns and worlds in 

 the flesh, my answer must be formed from the oper- 

 ations of the laws of electricity as applied to this 

 planet. 



Prof. Newcomb says astronomers have no means 

 of knowing as to the inhabitability of distant orbs 

 any more than other persons, and that we can 

 only reason cosmologically on the subject, and, 

 reasoning thus, he thinks only the earth and possi- 

 bly Mars are inhabitated. 



Prof. H. H. Turner, professor of astronomy at 

 Oxford, England, in the Fortnightly Review of 

 April, 1903, in combating Alfred Russell Wallace's 

 theory that our earth is in the center of the uni- 

 verse, and the only inhabited world, says: "Why 

 should not any one of the suns possess planets as 

 well adapted as we are to develop high forms of 

 organic life?" He seems to think no valid reason 

 can be given why there are not many inhabited 

 worlds as favorably situated as ours to produce 

 and maintain organic life. And I fully agree with 



