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pmtional to the distance, and this latter alternative 

 is sufficiently excluded. 



The infinity and eternity of the universe implies 

 the absence of special " points of singularity," such 

 as general catastrophes or absolute uniformity. 

 Whatever variety exists in space and time is 

 equalised if we take the space large enough or 

 the time long enough. The world of the present 

 moment is instinct with life and energy, with 

 change and progress and decay, bewildering and 

 overwhelming to the finite mind. But the infinite 

 universe is unchanging. It is the same yesterday, 

 to-day, and for ever. There is no loss and no 

 gain ; there is only redistribution and circulation. 

 There is a fundamental and abiding constancy, and 

 yet the variety is infinite. The All is immutable, 

 but the detail is for ever new. The equilibrium is 

 eternal ; but the event, the incident, the individuality 

 is unique, unprecedented, irrecoverable. 



I have proved that there are two solutions which 

 are in accordance with the above assumptions. 

 The first of these postulates a comparatively dense 

 universe of a consistency somewhat greater than 

 that of the Milky Way, but containing dark stars 

 in large excess. The other (p. 103) implies that hi 

 proceeding out into space the matter included in 

 successive world-spheres must vary, not as the 

 volume but as the radius ; in other words, that 

 in the universes of successively higher orders the 



