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 develop the characteristics of Upper Solar superiority. So soon as these signs unquestionably appeared, Upper Solardom was thrown open to their common citizenship; and it was often curious to mark the hesitation at first of these new-fledged great ones, at quitting the warmth of their old accustomed Lower Solar associations, intellectually inferior as they might be, to enter the cold, methodical, unvarying, most ungenial, and almost austere-looking life of the higher race. But it is now time to describe more particularly those remarkable Upper Solars, at whose walls, or rather at whose protective cross-electric panoply, we have just arrived.

The grand distinction of the Upper Solars is the additional sense given to the mind, in its communication with the outside world. This is the causation or reasoning sense, and it is indicated by a special set of nerves proceeding direct outwards from the middle of the frontal brain—the skull in that part having two small openings, by way of intellectual eyes, situated an inch or two above the ordinary eyes, and through which the said nerves pass, terminating in a peculiar outer ganglion, serving to meet, directly, external impressions. One feels quite lost in arguing upon this additional human quality or power; for prior to our knowledge of Upper Solar fact, we should have regarded such power as altogether superhuman and restricted to Deity. But there could be no doubt that it was a human acquirement, the result of long residence under the highest physical auspices—no