IX. The Nebular Hypothesis.—­State it; facts confirmatory.  Objections—­1.  Heat; 2.  Rotation; 3.  Retrograde; 4.  Martial moons; 5.  Star of 1876.  Evolution:  Gaps in; conclusion.

X. The Stellar System.-Motto.  Man among stars; open page; starry poem; stars located; named.  Thuban.  Etanin.  Constellations:  Know them; number of stars; double; e Lyrae, Sirius, Procyon, Castor, 61 Cygni, g Virginis.  Colored stars; change color.  Clusters:  Two theories.  Nebulae:  Two visible; composed of; shapes; where?  Variable stars.  Sun. b Lyrae, Mira, Betelguese, Algol; cause.  Temporary; 1572.  New star of 1866:  Two theories.  Star of 1876.  Movements of stars; Sirius; sun; 1830 Groombridge.  Stars near Pleiades:  Orion, Great Dipper, Southern Cross.  Centre of gravity.

XI. The Worlds and the Word.—­Rich.  Number.  Erroneous allusions.  Truth before discovery:  1.  A beginning; 2.  Creation before arrangement; 3.  Light before sun; 4.  Mountains under water; 5.  Order of development; [Page 278] 6.  Sphere of earth; 7.  How upheld; 8.  Number of stars; 9.  Weight of air; 10.  Meteorology; 11.  Queries to Job; 12.  Sun to end of heaven; 13.  View of Mitchell; 14.  Herschel.  What is matter?  Force?  End of earth.  Way to knowledge.  Work of light.  Transfiguration of matter.  Uniformitarianism.  A whisper of Him.  Man for mastery.  Each a type of higher.  Survival of fittest.  Uranus.  Worlds and Word one language.

XII. The Ultimate Force.—­Universe shows power:  1.  Rain; Niagara; 2.  Vegetable growth; 3.  Worlds carried; 4.  Sun; fill dome with worlds; 5.  Double suns; 6.  Galaxies.  Correlation.  What ultimate?  Mind and will.  What continuous relation?  Watch.  Theories of gravitation:  Newton’s, Le Sage’s, Bible’s.  High-class energy deteriorates.  Search for atoms:  1.  Microscope; 2.  Gold; 3.  Infusoria; 4.  Musk.  Properties of atoms:  1.  Impenetrable; 2.  Indivisible; 3.  Shape; 4.  Quality; 5.  Crystallization; 6.  Not touch each other; 7.  Active; 8.  Attractive; 9.  Intelligent.  Whose?  Relation of matter to God; rock to soil.  Push upward.  Highest has mastery.  Man advances by highest.  Matter recapacitated.  Refined habitations.  Inhabitants.  All force leads back to mind.  Personal and infinite.

[Page 279] GLOSSARY OF ASTRONOMICAL TERMS AND INDEX.

ABBREVIATIONS used in astronomies, 275. 
ABERRATION OF LIGHT (a wandering away), an apparent
  displacement of a star, owing to the progressive motion of light
  combined with that of the earth and its orbit, 199. 
AEROLITE (air-stone), 122. 
AIR, refraction of the, 40. 
ALGOL, the variable star, 222. 
ALMANAC, Nautical, 71; explanation of signs used, 275. 
ALPHABET, Greek, 275. 
ALTITUDE, angular elevation of a body above the horizon. 
ANGLE, difference in directions of two straight lines that meet. 
ANNULAR (ring-shaped) ECLIPSES, 158; nebulae,