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:cess of refrigeration, scattered through space "in cosmic 

 fragments, which, in form of comets and cloud-spots, 

 are borne away along the cosmic tide as food for living 

 worlds. Here ensues a strictly . material change. The 

 isun in perishing gives up its frame for consumption by 

 other suns. The substance of an extinct life is furnished 

 to support thousands of other lives. 



The flights of shooting stars which fall upon our 

 earth in the autumn months are fragments of such cosmic 

 cloud, flotsam and jetsam of extinct and broken worlds. 



If we compare human life with solar, we shall find 

 much in common. The relation of the sun to the aste- 

 roid is the relation of a mother to a new-born babe, 

 where maternal solicitude concerns itself with all the 

 little infant's wants, and prepares it for its future life. 



The subsequent training and education of the grow- 

 ing child corresponds to the relation between the planet 

 and its satellite, while we find an analogy to our civil 

 and political life in the systematic connection of sun and 

 planets. Sexual and marriage relations are presented in 

 the double star. Our Sun is the mother of her planet 

 family. The extinction of suns which turns them into 

 cloud and afterwards to cosmic food, is like human death 

 which turns the human frame to dust and terrestrial 

 nourishment. 



,A11 this points to the fact that all the visible world is 

 formed of kindred elements and that the differences we 

 observe are in the productive energies of this matter, 

 which vary according to the phenomena of cosmic heat. 

 : In one case the cosmic matter is only cooling, in another 

 the surface of a sphere is completely cooled, in a third 

 it is being prepared for spontaneous combustion, in a 

 fourth it burns and blazes, in a fifth it presents a cold 

 amorphous mass. 



I say all this points to the conclusion that the cosmic 

 life is universal and its conditions of reproductive energy 

 everywhere the same, and that there is no need to fear 

 any catastrophous collisions or other grand cosmis di- 



