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remain at rest on the sun itself, or in its atmosphere, 

 whatever the composition of either may be. It must 

 pass off, giving place to other undeveloped, but constantly 

 increasing, forces, behind. It may be inferred that there 

 are such forces, and that each revolution of the sun lifts 

 them on a stage, and that there is a refined and finished 

 part at least that never returns. 



This condensed and sublimated principle may be pro- 

 pelled or thrown off from the body of the sun and its 

 atmosphere against its own, or the gravity of the sun by 

 centrifugal forces, with such power as to reach the remot- 

 est planets of its own creation, and produce the results 

 there observable. Or this fluid may escape well defined 

 and specific limits of a solar atmosphere by its own vola- 

 tility or difference in gravity, entering the unresisting 

 ocean of ether beyond, but seeking a lodgment of its 

 own creation through the origin and growth of planetary 

 worlds. It does not matter to us which explanation we 

 accept. It is enough to know that it does flow from that 

 orb, and that it does answer our purpose. 



We suppose that Actien passes in straight lines through 

 space, to our own atmosphere, where the work of change 

 and transformation begins. This theory will also admit of 

 a plutonic origin of the germ of a planet, thrown off as a 

 cinder, from the sun, although it would be without form, 

 and void of atmosphere or water, a mere molten mass or 

 shell, hurled into space as a nucleus for further transfor- 

 mation under the influences of Actien. If such was the 

 origin of the nucleus of planetary worlds, they would be 

 somewhat like the moon, which can have but little atmos- 

 phere, and consequently no water to fill the immense cav- 

 ities observable on its surface, unlike our earth whose 

 caverns have been filled with briny sheets of condensed 

 vapor. When the rays of Actien reach the atmosphere, 



