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HAROLD’S DISCUSSIONS. 
around the orange in a direction contrary to the hands 
of a watch, keeping the axis toward the north star. 
When on the north side the pea should be twenty- 
three inches from the center of the orange—the 
earth’s winter position. When on the south side of 
the orange it should be twenty-four inches distant— 
the earth’s summer position. In March and Septem¬ 
ber it should be between these two positions in the 
orbit, about twenty-three and a half inches distant 
from the center. 
ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED? 
Ho telescope thus far made is powerful enough to 
show any life on any of our sister planets. Years 
ago it was quite common to think them occupied by 
human beings. It was argued that the Creator would 
not swing such extensive orbs into space and then 
leave them uninhabited. The idea has, however, been 
generally abandoned by scientific men, as the condi¬ 
tions on most of them are very different from that 
one under which we know life to exist. Some of the 
planets, particularly Jupiter, seem to be in a process 
of evolution similar to that through which our earth 
passed at a time when there was no life on it. It 
must be admitted that these are cogent reasons, yet 
we ought to understand that the Creator who could 
speak into existence a universe so infinite in magni¬ 
tude, in the number of spheres, and in varying condi¬ 
tions, could also create beings adapted to environ¬ 
ments which we can not comprehend. This globe has 
life that can exist in a block of ice or earth, in air, in 
