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 spreading, in the upper atmosphere, the entire solar circumference.

All central suns, after throwing off their planetary surroundings, continue long in cross-electrically disturbed condition, even long after they have become so far dynamically balanced as to develop organic life. When all this electrical disturbance at length completely subsides, as we see in Sirius, and many other of the like more advanced suns, the conditions are all at the highest for human development. A long lingering disturbance may still remain in the equatorial regions, even after the rest of the sun has attained the serenity alluded to. This is the case of our sun, in common with a good many others, and the consequence is, that there are two distinct solar peoples within our luminary, the one occupying a great belt of the still more or less disturbed equatorial centre, the other possessing the climatically serene and perfected sections, where they form an upper class of extremely higher human attainments, and keep quite aloof from the lower solars, much as we ourselves would do from a herd of monkeys or other inferior beings.

Of course our intercourse and trading were not with these high and mighty folks. Nevertheless it was one of our main objects to pay them a visit. Indeed Brown and I reckoned that this visit would form about the most novel and attractive chapter of our forthcoming volume, so little are these most remarkable people yet known to us. All our intercourse as yet had been with the lower or equatorial solars, whom we found a plain common-sense people, advanced on an average to our own whereabouts, much as we