Once created, the atoms of the cosmic matter would immediately begin to attract each other in all directions, and form themselves into groups. At first thought it might be supposed that these groups, and suns formed from them, ought to have been all of the same size, being formed from the same material under the same conditions, but nature, or evolution, seems never to be disposed to produce the same results in its manipulations of matter, whatever they may be. When the water is drawn off from a pond, and the mud left in the bottom of it allowed to dry in the sun, it breaks up into cakes of very various shapes and sizes. No doubt there are physical causes for this being the case, but, though perhaps not altogether impossible, it would be a hard task to find them out. Much more so would it be with originally created matter, and we have only to accept the fact. Moreover, there can be little doubt but that the universe was formed, evolved, according to some design--not at hap-hazard--and that the cosmic matter was created with the distribution necessary to carry out the plan. That the stars differ from each other in magnitude is the best proof of design; for no one can believe that inert matter could determine into what shapes and sizes it could arrange itself. But we have now nothing more to do with the universe, and will confine our operations to the domains of the sun. Notwithstanding the vagueness and dimness of the description we have been able to give of the part of space to which our work is now to be confined, we can conceive it to resemble in some degree--not a comparatively flat but--a round starfish, with arms more unequal in length, and irregular in position than the kind we are accustomed to see. In such an allotment of space we can easily conceive that the work of attraction and condensation, of the newly created cosmic matter, in forming itself into a nebula, would be most active in the main body; that in the arms, or projecting peaks as they may be called, it would go on more slowly in the direction towards the centre, the quantity being smaller; and that on account of the greater distance in each from the centre of attraction, and of its being more under the influence of the still existing counter-attraction of the matter in the domains of the sun's neighbours, they might become almost, or rather altogether, detached from the more rapidly contracting main body.