322 THE HISTORY OF CREATION, 
of its rotatory movement, assumed a spheroidal ora flattened 
globular form. 
While the centripetal force attracted the rotating particles 
nearer and nearer to the firm central point of the nebulous 
ball, and thus condensed the latter more and more, the cen- 
trifugal force, on the other hand, always tended to separate 
the peripheral particles further and further from it, and to : 
hurl them off. On the equatorial sides of the ball, which 
was flattened at both poles, this centrifugal force was 
strongest, and as soon as, by increase of density, it attained 
predominance over the centripetal force, a circular nebulous 
ring separated itself from the rotating ball This nebulous 
ring marked the course of future planets. The nebulous 
mass of the ring gradually condensed, and became a planet, 
which revolved round its own axis, and at the same 
time rotated round the central body. In precisely the 
same manner, from the equator of the planetary mass, as 
soon as the centrifugal force gamed predominance over 
the centripetal force, new nebulous rings were ejected, 
which moved round the planets as the latter moved round 
the sun. These nebulous rings, too, became condensed into 
rotating balls. Thus arose the moons, only one of which 
moves round our earth, whilst four move round Jupiter, and 
six round Uranus. The ring of Saturn still shows us amoon 
in its early stage of development. As by increasing refrigera- 
tion these simple processes of condensation and expulson 
repeated themselves over and over again, there arose the 
different solar systems, the planets rotating round their 
central suns, and the satellites or moons moving round their 
planets. 
The original gaseous condition of the rotating bodies of 
