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and time, to emphasise their relativity, and to in- 

 crease our outlook to several orders of infinity. 

 Whatever system we ultimately adopt as our 

 theory of the universe must, therefore, not only be 

 in accord with present-day laws and agencies, but 

 must be the logical outcome of those same agencies 

 working for all eternity. 



On this point, Alfred R. Wallace, in his great 

 work referred to above, says : 



" One of the greatest difficulties with regard to 

 the vast system of stars around us is the question 

 of its permanence and stability, if not absolutely 

 and indefinitely, yet for periods sufficiently long 

 to allow for the many millions of years that have 

 certainly been required for our terrestrial life- 

 development. This period, in the case of the 

 earth, as I have sufficiently shown, has been char- 

 acterised throughout by extreme uniformity, while 

 a continuance of that uniformity for a few million 

 years hi the future is almost equally certain. 



But our mathematical astronomers can find no 

 indications of such stability of the stellar universe 

 as a whole, if subject to the law of gravitation alone. 

 In reply to some questions on this point, my friend, 

 Professor George Darwin, writes as follows : " A 

 symmetrical annular system of bodies might re- 

 volve in a circle with or without a central body. 

 h a system would be unstable. If tho bodies 



are of urn-quiil masses and not symmetrically dis- 



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