Trip 812 of 5150 collection book57

For the reason that he is always brave who never suspects danger. Nobodybook33 knew him and the president uneasy as to the result of so free a discussion watched his new friend with some anxiety. If I were a naturalist I would tell him that according to some illustrious men of science nature has furnished us with instances upon the earth of animals existing under very varying conditions of life that fish respire in a medium fatal to other animals that amphibious creatures possess a double existence very difficult of explanation that certain denizens of the seas maintain life at enormous depths and there support a pressure equal to that of fifty or sixty atmospheres without being crushed that several aquatic insects insensible to temperature are met with equally among boiling springs and in the frozen plains of the Polar Sea in fine that we cannot help recognizing in nature a diversity of means of operation oftentimes incomprehensible but not the less real. You will I am sure readily admit this superiority of Jupiter over our own planet to say nothing of his years which each equal twelve of ours Under such auspices and such marvelous conditions of existence it appears to me that the inhabitants of so fortunate a world must be in every respect superior to ourselves.

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