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nebulous stars and clusters, nearly every naked-eye Star, however 

 lonely and isolated it may appear, as well as many telescopic Stars, 

 are the majestic centres, like our Sun, of extensive systems of 

 planets, satellites, comets, and meteor systems. We must not 

 suppose, however, that they are all built upon the same pattern, or 

 that all have arrived at the same degree of development as our 

 Solar System ; but until Analogy, Probability, and Continuity, 

 have been proved to be false lights to the human mind in its 

 search after truth, we must conclude that these globes, while differ- 

 ing in size, gravitation, brightness, distance, and motion, and yet 

 resembling each other in general structure and design, all point 

 with significant force to a oneness in origin, a oneness in purpose, 

 and a oneness in destiny. 



Part II. -INVISIBLE WORLDS IN OUTER SPACE. 



By W. D. Barbour. 



THE revelations of physiology under the microscope bring us 

 near to the threshold of the mystery of Creation. We 

 tread upon wonderful, if not holy, ground. Nature's secret 

 processes are here unveiled to human gaze. The Divine methods 

 are made visible. Within that unicellular speck of animal bioplasm, 

 there lie, as Huxley tells us, "strange possibilities." "In its warm, 

 watery cradle, rapid changes proceed, yet all steady and purpose- 

 like, as if in the hands of a skilled modeller. As with an invisible 

 trowel, the plasma is divided and sub-divided until reduced to an 

 aggregation of the finest granules. Then, as by a delicate finger, 

 the spinal column is traced, and head, limbs, and tail, become 

 moulded in such fashion that one involuntarily imagines the hidden 

 artist behind it all, working with his plan before him." And our 

 wonder rises as we read in that jelly-looking speck an amazing 

 history of mystery. Tracing its ancestry back, in thought, through 

 countless generations and vast periods of time, which seem- like 

 eternity, we are confronted at last by our dark cloud-covered Earth, 

 just cooling down from its primitive sun-like condition. There, 

 in that lirst bioplasmic " substance, made in secret and curiously 

 wrought," as it slowly evolves in those warm, saline, nascent 



