Other things equal, the largest mass will, because of its superior aggregative force, become hotter than the others, and radiate more intensely.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
But if we extend this hypothesis throughout an infinite past by the supposition of aggregation of infinitely remote particles we replace the simultaneous approach required in order to accotnt for the simultaneous phenomena visible in the heavens, by a succession of aggregative events, by hypothesis at intervals of nearly infinite duration, when the events of the universe had consisted of fitful gleams lighted after eternities of time and extinguished for yet other eternities.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly