| CHAP. | | PAGE | | I. | Early Ideas, | 1 | | II. | Modern Ideas, | 7 | | III. | The New Astronomy, | 24 | | IV. | The Distribution of the Stars, | 47 | | V. | Distances of Stars: the Sun's Motion, | 73 | | VI. | Unity and Evolution of the Star-System, | 99 | | VII. | Are the Stars Infinite? | 135 | | VIII. | Our Relation To the Milky Way, | 156 | | IX. | The Uniformity of Matter and its Laws, | 183 | | X. | The Essential Characters of Organisms, | 191 | | XI. | Physical Conditions essential for Life, | 206 | | XII. | The Earth in relation to Life, | 218 | | XIII. | The Atmosphere in relation to Life, | 243 | | XIV. | The Other Planets are not Habitable, | 262 | | XV. | The Stars: Have they Planets? Are they useful to Us? | 282 | | XVI. | Stability of the Star-System: Importance of Central Position: Summary and Conclusion, | 295 | | Index, | 326 | EIGHT DIAGRAMS IN THE TEXT AND TWO STAR CHARTS AT END.
'Who is man, and what his place? Anxious asks the heart, perplext In this recklessness of space, Worlds with worlds thus intermixt: What has he, this atom creature, In the infinitude of Nature?' F.T. Palgrave.
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