L. P. D.
TO THE READER.
The author sends out this little book feeling that if thereby he has made more clear the Unseen Hand that evolved and still controls the universe he will be amply rewarded.
L. P. D.
Bridgeport, June, 1894.
| INTRODUCTION. | [7] |
| CHAPTER I. | [10] |
| CHAPTER II. | [15] |
| CHAPTER III. | [21] |
| CHAPTER IV. | [25] |
| CHAPTER V. | [41] |
| CHAPTER VI. | [45] |
| CHAPTER VII. | [50] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | [65] |
| CHAPTER IX. | [71] |
| CHAPTER X. | [76] |
THE EVOLUTION OF WORLDS
FROM NEBULAE.
INTRODUCTION.
The theory of world-formation as conceived by the Nebular hypothesis has been briefly stated by Dr. H. W. Warren in the following words: “All the matter composing all the bodies of the sun, planets, and their satellites, once existed in an exceedingly diffused state; rarer than any gas with which we are acquainted, filling a space larger than the orbit of Neptune. Gravitation gradually contracted this matter into a condensing globe of immense extent. Some parts would naturally be denser than others, and in the course of contraction a rotary motion, it is affirmed, would be engendered. Rotation would flatten the globe somewhat in the line of its axis.