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Percival Lowell Mausoleum (<i>south side</i>)
Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: May 31, 2015
Caption: Percival Lowell Mausoleum (south side)
Additional Description: (tablet inscription:) Astronomy now demands bodily abstraction of its devotee… to see into the beyond requires purity… and the securing it makes him perforce a hermit from his kind… he must abandon cities and forego plains… only in places raised above and aloof from men can he profitably persue his search. He must learn to wait upon his opportunities and then no less to wait for mankind’s acceptance of his results... for in common with most explorers he will encounter on his return that final penalty of penetration the certainty at first of being disbelieved…
—Mars and Its Canals
Percival Lowell
Submitted: May 8, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p520471
File Size: 7.640 Megabytes

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