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tories of grandeur, unfathomable even by thought ; and effluvias veil- 
ing themselves from computation through infinity of rarefaction. 
“Human faculties gladly shelter themselves, after such contempla- 
tions, within objects of comparative familiarity ; these they find in ne- 
bulous particles. A universe of affluxes would elude unassisted hu- 
man perception; but the gradual combination of a detached portion 
into nebulous particles, through rotatory and polaric action, brings 
that portion palpably before the senses. We may, therefore, ration- 
ally presume these affluvie, thus primevally exhaled from the regions 
of nebulosity, to have aggregated, during a sequence of many ages, 
into infinitesimals of numberless diversified polarities and affinities ; 
and may equally assume the aggregation of such infinitesimals into 
nebulous particles to have taken place, through like rotatory and po- 
larie action, in the course of periods of commensurate immensity, the 
very homogeneousness of the original materials displaying the harmo- 
niousness of creative design, as developed in the sequel of farther 
myriads of ages. Here conjecture seems terminated. The observa- 
tion of nearly a century, with highly-wrought glasses, offers the 
conclusion that each particle throughout every nebula, trom impulses 
analogous to the foregoing—that is, by like rotatory action, and 
from like decomposing and recomposing polaric affinities—that each 
particle classes itself amidst those of relative rarity and polarity, al- 
though on a scale of proportionate grandeur. For here we must 
remember that it is a nebula we are now contemplating, an awfully 
stupendous nebula; wherein the denser particles are aggregating, 
not into fresh atoms, but into august centres, or suns of future sys- 
tems ; and wherein the particles of more rarefied tenuity, or exter- 
nal position, are systematically classing themselves into globes pro- 
portional to their respective species or polarities, until assemblages 
of orbs present themselves of the diversified magnitudes and aspects 
of those composing our solar system. Nor is this all, since, in pro- 
cess of time—that is, in the course of myriad ages—the nebulosity 
of one entire ebula concentrates into the illumination of its own 
multitudinous clusters of suns, each sun, throughout his own cluster, 
having become progressively encircled by his own express system of 
planets, with their moons, and a cometary machinery crowning the 
whole. The inherent, all-propelling rotatory principle appertain- 
ing to each particle of every individual globe, analogously develop- 
ing itself, not merely in propelling action towards each distinct 
planet, but towards those very suns themselves. Every sun, 
throughout each cluster, himself rotatorily propelled and rotatorily 
propelling others, thus splendidly illustrating the analogy between 
the revolutions of his own dependent planets around his own imme- 
diate »rb, and those on the more magnificent scale, whereby his own 
effulgent self, and the other suns of his cluster, revolve around that 
cluster’s common centre. Finally, this primordial principle, crown- 
ing itself with the majesty of infinitude, as the countless cluster of 
suns pervading space, marshalled within their appropriate strata of 
