CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTER I. 



THE COGNIZABLE AND THE COGNIZING. 



Interior Faculties Exterior Objects At Equipoise Correspondence of Outer and 

 Inner Course to be Pursued . 11 



CHAPTER II. 



DESCENDING SCALE OF TERRESTRIAL FORMS. 



The Three Kingdoms Geological Formations Descent through the Strata AUivcial, 

 Diluvial, Tertiary, Secondary, and Transition Formations Thickness of Strata 

 Simplicity of Older Fossils Primary Eocks Original Fluidity from Heat Pres- 

 ent State of the Earth's Center Primitive State of the Earth's Materials 14 



CHAPTER III. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TPIE SOLAR SYSTEM ANALOGICALLY 

 RETRACED. 



Connection of Geology and Astronomy Common Source of the Planets Nebular 

 Theory its Conception by Herschel Nebulous Stars Further Proofs of the Theory 

 Oblately Spheroidal Forms and their Signification Gradation of Densities Ee- 

 sidual Nebulous Matter" Zodiacal Light" Comets Compte's Calculations Kirk- 

 wood's Law The Conclusion 22 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SIDEREAL UNIVERSE ANALOGI- 

 CALLY RETRACED. 



Stars are Suns Clusters The Milky Way The Heavens Sounded Clusters beyond 

 Clusters Their Shapes and Densities Gravitation indicated Proof of other Laws 

 Variable Stars Eevolving Double Stars Immense Periods of some of them 

 Universality of Eevolutionary Motion Motion of the whole Solar System Maedler's 

 Central Sun Still higher Systems " Magellan's Clouds" The System of all Sys- 

 tems The Infinite and the Infinitesimal Nebular Theory universally Applied 

 Primeval Universal Chaos 81 



CHAPTER V. 



MATERIAL BEGINNINGS AS POINTING TO A SUPER-MATERIAL CAUSE. 



Matter, ~s Physical Substance, not Eternal Logical Evidences of a Spiritual Cause 

 That this Spiritual Cause was Uncaused, Personal, and DIVINE Matter Formed from 

 Spiritual Substance Motion not Inherent in Matter Must have its Origin in Spirit 

 IN GOD... .. 44 



