...in Saturn which may render other parts of his surface habitable as we should understand the term : " The very combinations which convey to our minds only...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." ' On the general question of the habitability of the system that circles about Saturn we have no means...

...inhabitants of our earth." • In the pres* Ai thi» passage has been quoted nearly verbatim. described, from what we see around us, when perhaps the very...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." But we 'do well to exercise our minds in enquiring how this may be ; and, as it appears to us, the...

...must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to...most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance.21 Herschel's discussion of the asteroids is so brief in his Treatise that one finds no...

...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated flings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...and glorious displays .of beneficent contrivance.'' Saturn is attended by seven satellites. Although they are bodies of considerable size, their great...