Capitolo 83
other things, under the certain fixed conditions; You have to have liquid
you sprinkle, you don't vaporize or ice: You have to have a certain limited series
of temperature, neither a lot of taller neither a lot of it lowers that
the average of the tropics. You now look, also with all these
conditions carried out, as different it is the life on this same earth, the
a place we really know--varying as much as from the oak to the
cuttle-fish, from the palm to the tiger, from man to the fern the
sea-weed or the glaze-dot. Every one of these creatures is a
complex of very complex conditions among which you owe resulted
you never forget to calculate the preceding existence and interaction of
all the antecedents. It is it probable, then, also a prior that
if the life or anything as him exist on some other planet, it is able
exists just in forms to everybody as our neighbor as a gold button it is to a human creature
being, or is a sea-anemone to a cat or a pine-tree?"
"Well it doesn't seem probable, you now come to put him/it so", Frida
answered thoughtfully: for, although the English, she was not completely
impervious to the logic.
"Probably? Clearly not", Bertram followed with sentence.
"Planetoscopists has agreed on him. And above all, because it owes one
you imagine the living organisms or their analogous thing, if some so there
it is, in the planets or fixed stars, so purely possesses some human
and animal faculty as thought and reasoned? That is alone as ours
human and common narrowness. If we were oaks, I suppose, we am only able
you interest him in the question if acorns existed in Mars
and Saturn." He made a break a moment; then he added in a reflection:
"No, Frida; You can be sure all the human beings, me and You similar, and
thousand of others a great quantity more different, it is essential
products of this one pee planet, and of particular times and
circumstances in his/her history. We only differ as birth and
circumstances have made us differ. There is a mystery around who me
it is, and from where I come; I won't deny him/it: but it is not from any