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real waste of nature's energies, unless, like their 

 correlatives on earth, they subserve the wants of 

 organized beings." Of the stars he says : " We 

 see that the stars are suns, around which revolve 

 myriads of worlds; and that the natural phenom- 

 ena, such as we are familiar with as due to the 

 solar heat, must be produced in these worlds by 

 the heat of their central sun ; and there must exist 

 vegetable and animal life." 



Robert Chambers, author of " Vestiges of Crea- 

 tion," in speaking of the satellites, says : " We have 

 to suppose, that every one of these globes is either 

 a theatre of organic beings, or in the way of be- 

 coming so. Such an idea is in accordance with our 

 general conception of the dignity, not to speak of 

 the power, of the Great Author." 



We see matter as originally diffused throughout 

 our own globe, consequently we presume matter 

 to be everywhere the same in other globes. Light, 

 heat and moisture are universal agents and bear 

 marked relations to organic life and structure. 

 Vapor or atmosphere, heat and light, pervade 

 throughout, as do carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and 

 nitrogen, which are the elements in vegetable and 

 animal life. Now if the other globes have the 



