INTRODUCTION 23 



sum of the universe into a coordinated whole is not the 

 ulterior purpose, but rather a necessary first condition to 

 the production, operation and development of its compo- 

 nent individual planetary systems. For, only in these 

 relatively minute units alone do the conditions exist for 

 the generation, propagation, and evolution of living or- 

 ganisms, which is the Ulterior Purpose. The Cycle of 

 this Evolution is not, as heretofore supposed, from the 

 first forming of a star out of cosmic dust to the final con- 

 dition of a dark, cold, inert clinker, but from one solar 

 paroxysmal explosion to the next From Nebula to Neb- 

 ula, a cycle endlessly repeated, with infinite permuta- 

 tions and combinations. 



