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This view is not in harmony with the theory of Newton. The latter

theory rather requires that the universe should have a kind of

centre in which the density of the stars is a maximum, and that

as we proceed outwards from this centre the group-density of the

stars should diminish, until finally, at great distances, it is

succeeded by an infinite region of emptiness. The stellar

universe ought to be a finite island in the infinite ocean of

space.[24]