For men constituted muscularly like ourselves would have to be proportionately small in the big planet and big in the small one.

Still stranger things may exist around other suns.

In those bright particular stars--which the little girl thought pinholes in the dark canopy of the sky to let the glory beyond shine through--we are finding conditions of existence like yet unlike those we already know.

To our groping speculations of the night they almost seem, as we gaze on them in their twinkling, to be winking us a sort of comprehension.

Conditions may exist there under which our wildest fancies may be commonplace facts.