CHAPTER XII.

SOME OF THE RESULTS OF THE FOREGOING THEORIES . . . . . . . . . . 79

Extent and character of their influence--Old channels obliterated, and new ones developed--Sentiments changed--Nebular hypothesis--The sun cool, luminous, and habitable--Celestial spectroscopy--Undulatory theories ignored--Light instantaneously transmitted--Telephone--No light nor heat wasted--Extent of the atmosphere of the spheres--The sun's power overestimated.