many questions to answer about the earth, the Martian mind showing as
great a thirst for knowledge as ours. One of the first things Thorwald
said after we had settled down to a good talk was:

"But, Doctor, your little head is so full of thought that it seems to me
you ought not to have been surprised to find us so large here. You knew
before you came that Mars is much smaller than the earth and, therefore,
the attraction of gravitation being less, that everything can grow more
easily. Things may as well be one size as another if only they are well
adapted to each other, and we would never have known we were large or that
you were small had we not been brought together. In the sight of Him who
made both the earth and Mars, and fashioned one for you and the other for
us, we are neither great nor small. In fact, size is never absolute but
only relative."

"That is very clear to us now," said the doctor, "and I promise not to be
surprised again, even when I walk the streets of your cities and see you
in your houses."

"Then, Doctor," said I, "if we had found inhabitants on the moon what
great folks they must have seemed to us."

This was an exceedingly foolish remark for me to make, for it resulted in
the doctor's almost betraying his condition to our friends.

Of course Thorwald was interested in what I said, and eagerly inquired:

"So you found no inhabitants in the moon?"

"Just one," spoke up the doctor quickly.