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a B and a C, and were to point up to the
heavens and ask your companions whether
they supposed there was any order law determining
the arrangement of the stars, the C would smile
and would remark that not a single law of
that description had ever been discovered yet.
Thereupon, B would exclaim, “What! Do you
mean to say there is no regularity in the arrangement
of the stars, when there is the
Milky Way before your eyes!” “Oh,” C would
reply, “there is a rough and irregular compression
of the cluster in which we happen
to find ourselves. But assuming the
Nebular Hypothesus to be true, that could
hardly escape coming about in consequence of