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I 10 | elements it mainly contains, or, at any rate, what elements are contained in ils outer paris. The -GOrOnta of the sun seems to consist mainly of hydrogen. Nearer the body of the sun, we find proof of the existence of the gases or vapours of many elements which we know well, and which can be found in our own bodies—hydrogen, lime, rnagncsium (which gives such a bright light when it is burnt), sodium and iron ; and besides iron, a largo number of other metals well-known on the eurih. “Wo know that he (the sun) is what he has been since lso first appeared on earth, and what he must continuo to be so long as life remains on earth—the groat source of the power. which, mainly in the form of lighl and heal, and also in other ways, which we are only beginning io undersland, sustains all life, makes the rain and the rivers, gives cvory visible pari of ihe earih ils light and colour and beauly, supplies ihe {ood of the geen plants upon which we feed, and so works in our muscles every time we move, in the eyes which sco the beauty of the earth and of the sun itself. and in the brains by ITnCölIYS of which wo iry to learn how all the things come io e". (The Book of Knowledge, page 2094, Vol. 7 and 8). The whole space of this solar syslem is filled గిఫ్ట్ల interpenetraled with the energy of the sun