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must also have occupied some other place, and have had 

 another velocity, another density of mass, &c. 



229. The coagulating matter of aether must collect into 

 a larger mass in the centre than in the periphery. The 

 centre will exist everywhere, and the periphery comes 

 only to its behalf as if it were a scaffold or prop only 

 to existence. The sun can only be the principle of the 

 determination of the planets by the preponderance of its 

 mass. Our sun comprises above 700 planetary systems 

 in itself. 



230. Sun and planet are mutually conditionated; both 

 have originated at the same time, the former as the posi- 

 tive pole, the latter as the negative, as the necessary 

 counterpoint, or the one as 0, the other as . The 

 hypothesis, which surmises that the planets have come 

 from another solar system, is not maturely considered. 

 For how have they there originated ? Such explanations 

 are mere child's play. Sun and planet are in idea but 

 one piece, only one line with two different extremities. 

 The same act which polarizes the sun polarizes also the 

 planets out of chaos. One and the same aether that has 

 become positive, is called sun, when negative, it is called 

 planet. Both are only a single globe of rether, the 

 centre of which is called sun, the periphery, planet. The 

 latter belongs to the sun, like a stone though detached 

 from, belongs to, the earth ; its rotation is therefore 

 similar, but retarded. 



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231. The sun cannot be in the absolute middle of the 

 solar system, on account of its antagonism with the 

 planets, which would likewise become the centre. The 

 collective mass of the planets is the secession of the sun 

 from the centre. The situation of the sun or the degree 

 of its excentricity bears relation to the pplarjbrce of the 

 planets. The form, under which the solaT system really 

 exists, cannot therefore be the sphere, but the ellipse, i. e. j 

 the duplicity of the centre.' 



232. The sphere is only the type of the universe, of 



