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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

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