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> # So far as thought may peer into the past, the epic of our solar system began with a great catastrophe. Two suns met. What had been, ceased; what was to be, arose. Fatal to both progenitors, the event dated a stupendous cosmic birth.

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## More from Percival Lowell

1. > War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

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2. > In the great desert of northern Arizona the traveller, threading his way across a sage-brush and cacti plain shut in by abrupt-sided shelves of land rising her…

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3. > That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

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