Excerpt from The Life of the Universe as Conceived by Man, From the Earliest Ages, to the Present Time, Vol. 1 of 2
My book, "Worlds in the Making," has been received with such general approval that I do not know how to express my thanks adequately. The work has called forth the most varied questions both from friends and strangers. Many of these questions concern the correctness of the manifold cosmogonic conceptions which were more general in the past than now. These questions, as well as other circumstances, induced me to trace the historical development of cosmogonic ideas from ancient days up to the time of Newton. I have become so profoundly interested in this research that I venture to think the public will be glad to read how the grand speculations of our age have been evolved from the primitive, childlike and incoherent notions of our ancestors in bygone ages.
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