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...certainty that it has no animal life but may have vegetation. Prime objects of scrutiny were to be the dark streaks which some hold to be canals, some to be forests; and the polar caps, which may be either ice or optical illusions caused by the 100-mile-thick Martian atmosphere...
...more subtle spirit of Dean Swift. Gulliver in this case is Bagaria, the famous cartoon'st of El So, a Madrid daily, and the scene of his remarkable travels is neither Brobdingnag nor the Houyhnhnms--but the more pertinent Mars. Daily letters describing in detail the condition of Martian life and Martian morals have been published in El Sol. Baraglas inferences of Mars correspond suspiciously with the present state of Spanish affairs. "Ninety percent of the Martians are soldiers and the rest are compelled to work...
...Martians are happier than we are and much more intelligent. First, because their planet is several million years older than ours, and progress is the law; then, because they are less governed by matter, the gravity there being less. A man or woman of 150 pounds would weigh only 50 on Mars. "Besides, as the years are nearly twice as long, the Martian is only 50 when we are 94. Finally, the climate is more equable...
...seen a pageant of dressed-up priests-a crucifix, bearing a shining cross of gold, torchbearers in red cassocks and cottas, priests in serried ranks followed by monks of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High Mass- they went, 700 strong, Had the Martian proceeded to the Witherspoon Auditorium, he would have heard them sing a song, Hail, Mary. Then he would have heard theological utterances; which, apparently to the satisfaction of all present, gave the coupe de grace to certain people variously styled as heretics and modernists. And he would have heard applauded...
...Martian, recording his adventure, might conclude: "And this indeed was a marvelous institution, for I could discover no manner of doctrine which it did not contain and exhibit...