We advance from law to the cause of law

The evidence of the existence of other astral systems besides our own is much more decided than might be expected when we consider that the nearest of them must needs be placed at a mighty interval beyond our own.

We have seen that the law which causes rotation in the single solar masses, is exactly the same which produces the familiar phenomenon of a small whirlpool or dimple in the surface of a stream.

the space occupied by even the comparatively small number visible to the naked eye, must be vast beyond all powers of conception.

It was first surmised by the ancient philosopher, Democritus, that the faintly white zone which spans the sky under the name of the Milky Way, might be only a dense collection of stars too remote to be distinguished. This conjecture has …

If we suppose that similar intervals exist between all the stars

Seeing in our astral system many thousands of worlds in all stages of formation