Nebulous Rings.
XIV.
THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS.
We have seen that, apart altogether from any theory of the formation of the solar system, there is abundant evidence of unity of style. The fact of types in nature, does not at all depend on the soundness of the theories devised to account for their existence; and the argument for the necessity of a divine origin for the typal idea, is not, in the least, affected, though many links of natural causation be discovered be-