EVOLUTION IN THE SUNS 73 



The stellar evidences of the synthesis 

 of matter and the creation of worlds, leaves 

 the position entirely untenable, that life once 

 came by a single creative unrelated act upon 

 this earth, or any other earth from which 

 it was carried to ours. Life is at present 

 originating in countless other worlds as daily 

 it is originating upon our own, and given 

 a certain stage in evolution when matter has 

 reached a certain complexity in structure, and 

 become tenanted by certain types of energy, 

 life must come, and having come must evolve 

 into higher and higher forms. 



The first stage of all is the evolution from 

 imponderable proto-matter, or ether, of the 

 electron, from the electron arise the proto- 

 elements, and from these the inert gases of the 

 helium group and hydrogen, and by various 

 unions of the proto-elements, the elements 

 as we know them at terrestrial temperatures 

 and conditions, arise. 



It is an observation of the highest interest 

 in the stellar evolution of the elements, as 

 has been pointed out by Lockyer, that it is in 

 the hottest stars that the simplest forms of 

 matter are present, and that the incandescent 

 bodies of the heavens can be classified on this 

 basis. 



The following is the classification pro- 



