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entitled to draw such conclusions, because there is 

 nothing singular or special in the astronomical 

 situation of our earth different from many other 

 planets. 



From this hypothesis we conclude that as other 

 planets are composed of the same elements and 

 governed by the same laws with similar environ- 

 ments, they are capable of supporting vegetable 

 and animal life. But it is not so much a question 

 as to whether they are inhabited as whether they 

 can be. To deny that they can, would be to deny 

 the omnipotence of God. When He who "hath 

 made the heavens, the heaven of heavens, with all 

 their host, the earth and all things therein " de- 

 sires more inhabitable worlds, He will create them. 

 God has all eternity wherein to do His work and 

 takes His own time for each process. " One day is 

 with the Lord as a thousand years." We are here 

 taught that the space which has intervened between 

 the present time and the period when man and 

 the lower animals were first placed upon the globe, is 

 but one of the units of a vast series of chronological 

 periods which have gone before, and which stretch 

 backwards into the abyss of immeasurable duration. 

 The same law of force and matter has been in use 



