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some dynamic organization or some combination of such organiza- 

 tions, except perhaps that theoretical neutrality may arise momen- 

 tarily on the border lines of spheres of control where exact 

 balancings of attraction may obtain for an instant; but as all 

 celestial bodies are moving relative to one another this can only 

 be transient and unimportant. The concept of such pervasiveness 

 of stress throughout all cosmic space has the merit of dismissing 

 from serious consideration certain inherited notions, for example, 

 that somewhere in space there may be regions where "primordial" 

 matter may have lurked in idleness from a supposed beginning, 

 or where nebulous matter, or dissipated particles of any sort, may 

 somehow assemble purely under their own attraction and later 

 drift into the active cosmic world as quasi-primordial matter, and 

 similar notions that seem to be but reshaped vestiges of oriental 

 concepts of primitive chaos. A much more important function of 

 the deduction, however, is its amplification of the doctrine of 

 dynamic encounter. 



VI. From the preceding generalizations it follows that the 

 spheres of control of cosmic bodies are either perpetually plowing 

 through the higher orders of spheres of control that envelop them, or 

 are impinging upon other spheres of control of their own type. In 

 either case, their own domains, as well as those of the bodies with 

 which they interact, are perpetually suffering encroachments. 

 Innumerable dynamic encounters of widely varying types and 

 moment thus spring from cosmic movements. As an incident of 

 these innumerable encroachments of one domain upon another, 

 transfers of the minuter class of units from the field of dominance 

 of one controlling center to that of another are almost perpetual 

 occurrences. They constitute a system of exchange of the first 

 order of extent and seem to be a vital factor in cosmic life. In 

 the case of the earth, revolving in the sphere of control of the sun, 

 this system of exchange is regarded as having a very high order 

 of importance in the maintenance of our atmosphere and the in- 

 crease of our hydrosphere. 



Since encounters of some order of importance are almost in- 

 finitely frequent, it is necessary to specify explicitly the nature of 

 the encounter in any argument that is based on frequency of 



