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elements as here on earth." Now, I fully agree with 

 him in that statement, which I contend shows clearly 

 that these worlds are inhabited. For if they possess 

 the same elements and are controlled by the same 

 laws, they must produce the same results of organic 

 life as appear on our earth; and his arguments 

 about temperature, proportion of land and water, 

 etc., do not affect the question. His conclusions 

 brand the Great Architect of the universe as an 

 incompetent and wasteful profligate, and is con- 

 trary to all analogy in human reason, to all law 

 of proportion and compensation, and to " the eter- 

 nal fitness of things." 



The fact that our earth has the same laws, forces, 

 and substances as other worlds and is swarming 

 with its countless myriad forms of organic life; 

 and that all the manifestations of nature's creative 

 forces are prolific in the production of sentient 

 beings, is conclusive evidence that abundant life 

 exists on other spheres, and other worlds are not 

 dreary wastes of burning plains and sandy deserts. 

 The fact that the Creative Spirit built up man's 

 body through ages of animal growth and perfecting 

 bodily development, or modeled it after such per- 

 fected animal forms, and then breathed His own 

 life and spirit into it, and made man a spiritual, 

 eternal being like Deity Himself, is strong evidence 

 that in other suns and worlds he has done likewise ; 

 and that they are the theatres of spiritual as well 

 as of vegetable and animal life. God creates be- 

 cause He is Love and must have spiritual children 

 as the objects of His affection. 



This reason would cause him to people other 

 worlds with the highest order of intelligent creatures 



