past or
future of
even small
inorganicmasses,
and still
less can
we form it
of greater
ones; and
when we
come tothe
vast
masses
forming
our Solar
System,
the limits
to their
existence,alike
in the
past and
in the
future,
can be
known but
inferentially:
directobservation
no longer
aids us.
Still,
science
leans more
and more
to
theconclusion
that these
also once
emerged
from the
imperceptible
through
successivestages
of
condensation
and will
in an
immeasurably
remote
future
lapse
