CHAPTER III 



PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF A SUPRA-WORLD 



BEFORE endeavouring to interpret the structure and 

 history of our present stellar system, it will be 

 necessary to dispose of certain questions with regard 

 to its limits, which have been much debated of late. 

 Alfred R. Wallace has dealt very fully with the 

 question of the unity or plurality of worlds in his 

 well-known work on " Man's Place in the Universe." 

 With the balance of probabilities in favour of organic 

 life in other planets than ours we are here not con- 

 cerned. Our scale of life life in the supra- world 

 will transcend a quadrillionfold the scale of human 

 life. But before we can describe life hi the supra- 

 world in terms more or less borrowed from our own, 

 we must make sure that our supra-world exists or, 

 at the least, that its existence is not out of harmony 

 with known laws of nature. 



But what are these laws ? There's the rub. For 

 when it comes to travelling beyond the confines of 

 the galaxy, travelling a billion times as far as its 

 outer edge, in order to arrive at last on the surface 

 of a "supra-star," we cannot pin our faith exclu- 

 sively to any one of the great world-laws so far dis- 



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