The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications .. . UNITY. 13. The star Alcyone, in the Pleiades, is supposed by manyastronomers to be the mightier sun which forms the center ofunity for our own sun and a great number of other solar systems. 14. To show that the universe follows this law of unity inthe large as well as small, I will give a few star clusters,
The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications .. . UNITY. 13. The star Alcyone, in the Pleiades, is supposed by manyastronomers to be the mightier sun which forms the center ofunity for our own sun and a great number of other solar systems. 14. To show that the universe follows this law of unity inthe large as well as small, I will give a few star clusters, some-times called nebulae, as seen by Sir John Herschel. I wouldfirst remark that our own solar system is situated in the vastcluster called the Milky Way, which William Herschel, aided byhis telescope, estimates as composed of 18,000,000 stars. IfAlcyone is the center around which move our own and manyother solar systems, it is reasonable to suppose that the Milky Fg- 31-. Fig- 32- Way itself has some vast center around which Alcyone and allthe other stars of this immense cluster make their almost infi-nite circuit. Otherwise how could they be held in a mass sepa-rate from the rest of the universe ? But all stars seem to besituated in some cluster, and held there by a law of unity withthe other stars. These clusters are counted by thousands. Inthe Constellation Virgo is what seems to the naked eye to be asmall star called o> (omega) Centauri, but when viewed througha large telescope proves to be a magnificent globular cluster ofthousands of stars, represented by fig. 30. These globular clus-ters are very common. Fig. 31 simply gives the central portionof a spiral nebula in the lower jaw of Leo, the whole of whichis supposed to contain millions of stars. There must have been AMt.^ IO HARMONIC LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE. a center of amazing power around which inconceivably vastwhirlwinds of force swept this array of stellar systems. Fig. 32is an oval nebula
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