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Ulysses

Did he find the problems of the inhabitability of the
planets and their satellites by a race, given in species, and
of the possible social and moral redemption of said race by
a redeemer, easier of solution?

Of a different order of difficulty. Conscious that the
human organism, normally capable of sustaining an
atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a
considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered
with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the
line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere
was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded
respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for
solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis
which could not be proved impossible that a more
adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of
beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial,
Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian
sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean
humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite
differences resulting similar to the whole and to one
another would probably there as here remain inalterably
and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities
and to all that is vanity.

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