The cosmic tendency of the planet 

 worlds. 



From the scheme I have expounded in describing 

 the solar system it is now evident that the efforts of the 

 planets are directed to their conversion into suns. In the 

 heavens as on the earth the family is the ideal of indi- 

 vidual life. Let us look how this ideal is attained. 



The infant asteroid being new-born of a sun, is in- 

 candescent and its first aim is by cooling to prepare 

 itself for cosmic life. Oxo-hydrogen assists it in this effort 

 by surrounding it with heavy vapour clouds. The spec- 

 trum of the little orb must consist of lines of hydrogen, 

 oxygen and nitrogen. 



When sufficiently chilled a tendency to develop vege- 

 table life begins to operate and a life of cosmic service 

 commences: the little planet becomes a moon, acting as 

 an electroid to the larger sphere with which it carries 

 on exchange of matter. First it receives from this sphere 

 the germs ofjthat vegetation which it sustains by its electric 

 light, and with these seeds the insects which promote 

 their growth; and then as water is the vital food of 

 plant-life, the seas and lakes are the first planetary nur- 

 series. 



The planet-moon remains an electroid of some larger 

 world until firm continents are formed upon its surface 

 continents covered with vegetation: it must live through 

 its age of water-weeds and aquatic animals from ani- 

 malcule and sponges up to crabs and large-sized fish; its 



