Evolution of Worlds. 277 



An absolute beginning to sun-making being as 

 impossible as unthinkable without introducing con- 

 ditions and causes whose sun-making powers and 

 properties would be equally inexplicable, we start 

 with the only possible beginning, a universe of worlds 

 in motion. For it is wiser to commence our assumptions 

 with the existence of something we know of (universal 

 phenomena) rather than with the imagined existence of 

 a postulate we know nothing of and which is equally 

 inexplicable — a Creator of universal phenomena. 



We thus assume that, infinite ages ago, two huge 

 suns with satellites, probably peopled with intelligent 

 beings like ourselves, crossed each other's orbits while 

 careering through space. Then through the polarities of 

 both being attractive instead of repulsive they collided 

 with immense force, dragged their satellites and all 

 intervening comets, meteors, and asteroids to them 

 as into a net, each falling body adding to the heat, 

 until the whole company ultimately fused into one 

 huge luminary, torn and distracted by uncontrollable 

 eruptive energies. 



In those throes and dying agonies of former worlds, 

 our sun, the product of the whole fusion, was born ; a 

 sun immeasurably larger, brighter, and mightier than 

 now — an orphan amidst the other starried hosts. Soon, 

 however, it generated its own company. The collision 

 and fusion was practically, on a large scale, the simple 

 sexual process of "encystment" observable amongst 

 various families of the protozoa. The fused mass was 

 not barren, but fruitful. It was, in fact, an ovary in 



