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sidence to generate an immense quantity of 

 heat and to maintain the mass for aeons at 

 an excessively high temperature, thereby 

 fitting it to become the centre of light and 

 life to a number of worlds. The blaze of the 

 sun is a property which is the outcome of 

 its great mass. A small permanent sun is 

 an impossibility. 



Wherefore, properties can be possessed 

 by an aggregate or assemblage of particles 

 which in the particles themselves did not in 

 the slightest degree exist. 



If, however, we reverse the aphorism and 

 say that whatever is in a part must be in the 

 whole, we are on much safer ground. I 

 do not say that it cannot be pressed into 

 illegitimate extremes, but in one and that 

 the simplest sense it is little better than a 

 platitude. The fact that an apple has pips 

 legitimises the assertion that an apple-tree 

 has pips, and that the peculiar property of 

 pips represents a faculty enjoyed by the 

 vegetable kingdom as a whole ; but it would 

 be a childish misunderstanding to expect to 



