"That is to say," broke in Ardan, to give what he conceived a sharper point to Barbican's cogent arguments, "such a race of beings as could exist without existing!"
"Precisely," said Barbican: "Life without movement, and no life at all, are equivalent expressions."
"Captain," said Ardan, with all the gravity he could assume, "have you anything more to say before the Moderator of our little Debating Society gives his opinion on the arguments regarding the question before the house?"
"No more at present," said the Captain, biding his time.
"Then," resumed Ardan, rising with much dignity, "the Committee on Lunar Explorations, appointed by the Honorable Baltimore g*n Club, solemnly assembled in the Projectile belonging to the aforesaid learned and respectable Society, having carefully weig
