Chapter 5 The Romance of the Moon An observer endued with an infinite range of vision, and placed in that unknown center around which the entire world re-volves, might have beheld myriads of atoms filling all space during the chaotic epoch of the universe. Little by little, as ages went on, a change took place; a general law of attraction manifested itself, to which the hitherto errant atoms became obedient: these atoms combined together chemically according to their affinities, formed themselves into molecules, and com-posed those nebulous masses with which the depths of the heavens are strewed. These masses became