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sides utter security, complete adaptation. The changeful 

 scenes of the natural world will not be able to disturb 

 the restful happiness of a spirit which has once been 

 raised to such a height. And while it already tastes 

 beforehand this blessed state with a sweet hopefulness, it 

 may at the same time utter itself in those songs of praise 

 with which all eternity shall yet resound. 



" When Nature fails, and day and night 



Divide Thy works no more, 

 My ever grateful heart, O Lord, 

 Thy mercy shall adore. 



" Through all Eternity to Thee 



A joyful song I'll raise ; 



For, oh ! Eternity's too short 



To utter all Thy praise." 



ADDISON. 



ADDITION TO THE SEVENTH CHAPTER. 



A GENERAL THEORY AND HISTORY OF THE SUN. 



THERE is another important question, the solution of 

 which is indispensable in a physical theory of the 

 heavens and -in a complete cosmogony. It is this : Why 

 is it that the centre of every system is occupied by a 

 flaming body? Our Planetary System has the sun as its 

 central body, and the fixed stars which we see are, in all 

 probability, centres of similar systems. 



