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pidity, until the condition of greatest stability was attained. If 

 such a relation existed amongst the constants upon which the 

 mutual action of the atoms depends, as to render it possible tliat 

 one uniform wave length should be attained, that would be the 

 final result. In that case there would be one uniform stability 

 of molecular arrangement ; a hard uncompromising state of 

 things, without the possibility perhaps, of that continuous round 

 of composition and decomposition upon which the life of our part 

 of the Universe depends. 



It may be, then, that chaos means diversity of wave length, and 

 that cosmos means variety in unity, and that absolute unifoi-mity 

 of wave length would be universal death. It is a curious subject 

 for reflection, that the possibility of cosmos evolving out of chaos ; 

 that is, the possibility that the material universe should become 

 fitted to be the abode of organic life, may have depended upon 

 whether or not a few constants were so arranged, in the beginning, 

 as to satisfy a simple mathematical condition. 



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