THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS 53 



1. It is chimerical. 



2. The supply of heat it provides is utterly inade- 

 quate to the requirements. 



3. The sort of sun it accounts for is far too vari- 

 able from eon to eon to satisfy the exacting specifica- 

 tions of the kindred sciences, geology, paleontology, etc. 



4. It foredooms the universe to final destruction 

 by agglomeration into a single mass void of heat. 



5. Its acceptance is possible only by an exercise 

 of faith, for it is lacking both in proof and in mental 

 conviction. 



6. Worst of ally it is philosophically unsound in- 

 asmuch as it denies the potential integrity of th* uni- 

 verse from instant to instant > and peccantly diverts the 

 imaginary original capital of the universe to current 

 needs. 



