Percival Lowell - Mars and its canals (1906)

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That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

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War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

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The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

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Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

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The theory of the existence of intelligent life on Mars may be likened to the atomic theory in chemistry in that in both we are led to the belief in units which we are alike unable to define.

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Girdling their globe and stretching from pole to pole, the Martian canal system not only embraces their whole world, but is an organized entity. Each canal joins another, which in turn connects with a third, and so on over the entire surface of the planet.

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From time immemorial travel and discovery have called with strange insistence to him who, wandering on the world, felt adventure in his veins. The leaving familiar sights and faces to push forth into the unknown has with magnetic force drawn the bold to great endeavor and fired the thought of those who stayed at home.

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