Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 9235

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9235. I realized that this characteristic of theirs arose from the fact that the inhabitants of the moon do not use their lungs to speak with, as the inhabitants of other planets do, but their abdomen, and so a collection of air there. This they do because the moon is not surrounded by an atmosphere like that around other planets.


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