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A
violent
movement
of
interest
and
surprise
here
greeted
this
remark
of
the
speaker
.
"
Permit
me
,
"
he
continued
,
"
to
recount
to
you
briefly
how
certain
ardent
spirits
,
starting
on
imaginary
journeys
,
have
penetrated
the
secrets
of
our
satellite
.
In
the
seventeenth
century
a
certain
David
Fabricius
boasted
of
having
seen
with
his
own
eyes
the
inhabitants
of
the
moon
.
In
1649
a
Frenchman
,
one
Jean
Baudoin
,
published
a
'
Journey
performed
from
the
Earth
to
the
Moon
by
Domingo
Gonzalez
,
'
a
Spanish
adventurer
.
At
the
same
period
Cyrano
de
Bergerac
published
that
celebrated
'
Journeys
in
the
Moon
'
which
met
with
such
success
in
France
.
Somewhat
later
another
Frenchman
,
named
Fontenelle
,
wrote
'
The
Plurality
of
Worlds
,
'
a
chef-d'oeuvre
of
its
time
.
About
1835
a
small
treatise
,
translated
from
the
New
York
American
,
related
how
Sir
John
Herschel
,
having
been
despatched
to
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
for
the
purpose
of
making
there
some
astronomical
calculations
,
had
,
by
means
of
a
telescope
brought
to
perfection
by
means
of
internal
lighting
,
reduced
the
apparent
distance
of
the
moon
to
eighty
yards
!
He
then
distinctly
perceived
caverns
frequented
by
hippopotami
,
green
mountains
bordered
by
golden
lace-work
,
sheep
with
horns
of
ivory
,
a
white
species
of
deer
and
inhabitants
with
membranous
wings
,
like
bats
.
This
brochure
,
the
work
of
an
American
named
Locke
,
had
a
great
sale
.
But
,
to
bring
this
rapid
sketch
to
a
close
,
I
will
only
add
that
a
certain
Hans
Pfaal
,
of
Rotterdam
,
launching
himself
in
a
balloon
filled
with
a
gas
extracted
from
nitrogen
,
thirty-seven
times
lighter
than
hydrogen
,
reached
the
moon
after
a
passage
of
nineteen
hours
.
This
journey
,
like
all
previous
ones
,
was
purely
imaginary
;
still
,
it
was
the
work
of
a
popular
American
author
--
I
mean
Edgar
Poe
!
"
"
Cheers
for
Edgar
Poe
!
"
roared
the
assemblage
,
electrified
by
their
president
's
words
.
"
I
have
now
enumerated
,
"
said
Barbicane
,
"
the
experiments
which
I
call
purely
paper
ones
,
and
wholly
insufficient
to
establish
serious
relations
with
the
Queen
of
the
Night
.
Nevertheless
,
I
am
bound
to
add
that
some
practical
geniuses
have
attempted
to
establish
actual
communication
with
her
.
Thus
,
a
few
days
ago
,
a
German
geometrician
proposed
to
send
a
scientific
expedition
to
the
steppes
of
Siberia
.
There
,
on
those
vast
plains
,
they
were
to
describe
enormous
geometric
figures
,
drawn
in
characters
of
reflecting
luminosity
,
among
which
was
the
proposition
regarding
the
'
square
of
the
hypothenuse
,
'
commonly
called
the
'
Ass
's
Bridge
'
by
the
French
.
'
Every
intelligent
being
,
'
said
the
geometrician
,
'
must
understand
the
scientific
meaning
of
that
figure
.
The
Selenites
,
do
they
exist
,
will
respond
by
a
similar
figure
;
and
,
a
communication
being
thus
once
established
,
it
will
be
easy
to
form
an
alphabet
which
shall
enable
us
to
converse
with
the
inhabitants
of
the
moon
.
'
So
spoke
the
German
geometrician
;
but
his
project
was
never
put
into
practice
,
and
up
to
the
present
day
there
is
no
bond
in
existence
between
the
Earth
and
her
satellite
.
It
is
reserved
for
the
practical
genius
of
Americans
to
establish
a
communication
with
the
sidereal
world
.
The
means
of
arriving
thither
are
simple
,
easy
,
certain
,
infallible
--
and
that
is
the
purpose
of
my
present
proposal
.
"
A
storm
of
acclamations
greeted
these
words
.
There
was
not
a
single
person
in
the
whole
audience
who
was
not
overcome
,
carried
away
,
lifted
out
of
himself
by
the
speaker
's
words
!
Long-continued
applause
resounded
from
all
sides
.
As
soon
as
the
excitement
had
partially
subsided
,
Barbicane
resumed
his
speech
in
a
somewhat
graver
voice
.
"
You
know
,
"
said
he
,
"
what
progress
artillery
science
has
made
during
the
last
few
years
,
and
what
a
degree
of
perfection
firearms
of
every
kind
have
reached
