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Sun, whilst these latter are totally different from those 

 existing between the Sun and comets, or between the 

 partners in a double star. 



And indeed when a little asteroid first breaks from 

 its sun shell what is its requirement in cosmic space? 

 Clearly its first need is to become a member of the 

 cosmic family, for which purpose it must be cooled down 

 and pass through all the phases of cosmic life. In the 

 cooling process it is aided by the oxo-hydrogen drawn 

 from the planets by the sun's heat and light, which, 

 under the name of ether, floats everywhere in space. 

 Coming in contact with the hot body of the little planet, 

 the oxygen element instantaneously undergoes combus- 

 tion resulting in the formation of a vaporous moisture. 

 Thick clouds cover the incandescent ball until its surface 

 cools. This however is only the first part of the pro- 

 cess of refrigeration : after this follows the concentrated 

 formation of moisture in the superficial depressions of 

 the globe, resulting in seas and lakes ; in other words 

 another step in the evolutionary exchange of material 

 forms. The only remaining need is now the want of 

 vegetable and animal life, and to supply this need the 

 asteroid becomes the satellite of a more perfect world, 

 or what we call a moon, and it is at this stage that it 

 falls first under the influence of planetary inter-action. 



Consider now the tie between the Earth and its sa- 

 tellite the Moon. We saw that without lunar aid the 

 vegetable kingdom would perish in the nights, and our 

 polar regions would be without the vestige of vegetation. 

 Thanks to the moon the vegetable kingdom stretches 

 from the Equator to the poles, for the very reason that 

 its presence is essential to our satellite as an evolutio- 

 nary factor. The exchange of matter has begun. The 

 earth distilling a mass of hydro-oxygen drives it with 

 inconceivable force into the atmosphere, and in their 

 course, these gases bear away the germs and seeds of 

 vegetable and animal life on earth, carrying them to 

 the Moon and other spheres. This phenomenon of cos- 



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