42 THE SIDEREAL UNIVERSE. 



in like manner, were previously connected and inte'rdiffused 

 with the mass which formed the more interior sun around 

 which it revolves, and out of which were formed all such other 

 ultimate suns as, in common with our own, now revolve around 

 the same center. The substance of all suns and systems com- 

 posing our firmament, may be supposed also to have been 

 previously interdiffused in one amorphous, undistinguishable 

 mass. So the substance of the suns and systems of all other 

 firmaments, together with the substance of the great central 

 sphere of universal attraction which binds and subordinates 

 them all, was, in like manner, in an original nebulous and 

 formless state ; and the whole universal substance was then 

 but one substance, so highly attenuated and expanded as to be 

 without definite forms, divisions, or compartments an in- 

 definable, universal MONAD ! In short, as our own solar sys- 

 tem is a child of the great Universal System, and is formed in 

 the image of its parent, the primal condition of the materials 

 of one, must have been precisely analogous to that of the 

 other; and if the solar system germinated from an original 

 nebulae, so did the system of the whole universe. 



But in thus unraveling the complexity of all material for- 

 mations, and tracing them all to an original, unitary, and 

 chaotic state, we at the same time unravel the complexity of 

 motion, and not only arrive at its original and simplest form, 

 but at a state in which it must necessarily have had no form-r- 

 a state in which its principles were as chaotic as original mat- 

 ter itself, or, what is the same thing, at a state in which no 

 established motion existed. 



We have thus arrived by an easy, and, admitting our pre- 

 mises, an apparently certain, process, at the very root of the 

 Tree of universal material creations at the great unitary 

 Germ of all firmaments, suns, systems, and worlds, with the 



