. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. volve in a manner similar to the movements ofour planetary system. The idea was further advanced that the sunonce filled all the space now oc
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. volve in a manner similar to the movements ofour planetary system. The idea was further advanced that the sunonce filled all the space now occu-pied by the orbits of the severalplanets. That from the sun hasbeen thrown off from time to timean emanation of gaseous substancewhich formed in a ring about thesun, and in due time broke, col-lected together and made a the sun has gone forwardgradually contracting and throwingoff rings thus until all the planetsin the solar system have been inthis manner developed. That this solar system of ours,with its sun and planets revolvingin space, is but one of millionsof similar systems, thousands ofwhose planets are inhabited, whilesome once inhabited are dead,and others are yet too young andgaseous to admit of habitation. That while the planets revolvearound the sun, this sun with itsfamily of planets revolves withmany other systems around agreater sun, and this greater sunwith its multitude of systemsrevolves around a great
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