BRITAIN AND THE MOON
M. Flammarion, great as astronomer, was also a noteworthy recruit to the ranks of the Spiritualists (writes “Ocellus,” in the ‘Outlook’). From efforts to probe the secrets of the heavens he turned to the still greater mystery of the soul, and he was at once scientist, poet, and romancer. He has been credited with achievement in many roles, but no one has suggested that he was also at times a pretty wit. A story told by one of his friends some years ago has, I think, never been published. An Englishman once asked M. Flammarion whether, in his opinion, the moon was inhabited. “ Unquestionably no,” answered_the great man; “if it wore inhabited it would long since have been annexed by the British EmEkfiw
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Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 10
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127BRITAIN AND THE MOON Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 10
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