| + − | Spec. 97: 131. Jl. 28, ’06. 2040w. |
Lowell, Percival. [Mars and its canals.] **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–45164.
On the hills of northern Arizona, Mr. Lowell built an observatory and equipped it with apparatus for a life study of Mars. He offers in this volume the deductions from his observations to date. Not only does he convince the reader that Mars is inhabited but “that the inhabitants of Mars are carrying on a system of irrigation for agricultural purposes on an immeasurably larger scale than has ever been dreamed on our planet, that they possess a high degree of agricultural and mechanical intelligence, and a degree of moral development so far in advance of any we have yet reached that in all probability war is among them unknown.” (Outlook.)
“A longer and rather more serious book than that of Morse on Mars.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 69. Mr. ’07. | |
| Ath. 1907. 1: 478. Ap. 20. 480w. |
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
| Atlan. 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 670w. |
“With all respect, then, to Professor Lowell, and with all trust in the accuracy of his observations, they seem explicable enough without any idea of Mars being inhabited. It seems pretty clear that he has let his imagination run away with him.” George M. Searle.