114 THE SUN’S MOTION IN SPACE. 
and that the proportion of stationary to traveling stars rises rapidly 
with descent down the scale of magnitude. Hence a mean struck in 
disregard of the zeros is totally misleading, while the account is no 
sooner made exhaustive than its anomalous character becomes largely 
modified. Yet it does not wholly disappear. There is some warrant 
for it in nature. And its warrant may perhaps consist in a preponder- 
ance, among suns endowed with high physical speed, of small, or 
slightly luminous, over powerfully radiative bodies. Why this should 
be so it would be futile, even by conjecture, to attempt to explain. 
