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the surface is gaseous, or something between liquid and gaseous. 

 If the sun has a nucleus, the action of the planets is to produce 

 an eccentric rotation of the sun itself, and to form a very complex 

 series of tides which would account for the appearance of a 

 constant movement on the solar surface. The Lecturer believes 

 that the instirring, ejection, dissociation, and recombination of the 

 enveloping solar gases are sufficient to originate and maintain 

 the heat and light of the sun, the instirring agent being the 

 eccentric rotation of the solar nucleus, and the fresh fuel being 

 supplied by the cosmic matter exchanged for that ejected by the 

 prominences, and which the sun meets with in the course of its 

 translation through space. 



