National Republican., 1882-12-11
A HOROSCOPE OF THE COMING TIME.

In pursuit of the preceding star-idyl, that
claims to possess at least one feature of genu-
inc poetry, namely, to embody spirit of
truth in its poetical garment, l will say, that
this transit ushers in new dispensaton, an
enormous upheaval in the social, mental, and
moral life of the human race.
The transit in the year 1863 was the spirit
ual father of the French revolution of the
year 1879, and its preparatory precursor, the
mental revolution ushcred in by Voltaire and
the encyclopedias, as well as Of the social
and mental revolution that took place in
Germany in the latter decades of that CEN
tury, known as the Sturm and Drangperiode.
The cosmical change consists in an enormous
transfer of dynamical power from the sun to
the planet, which the latter absorbs during
the transit from out of the maternal heart of
the sun. The result of this is temporary loss
of eccentric solar power, and a corresponding
predomiuance of its cold rays or cOncentric
energy.
The planet, on the contrary, will swell in
bulk and increase in eccentric radiation. As
a consequence the higher, spiritual warmth of
human life will wax colder for period, and
the planetary heat of all natural and sensuous
ties will grow intensely stronger. The cold,
reasoning powers of the mind on the one
side, as well as the hot ardor of the natural
soul on the other side, will increase in corre-
spending degree, till dangerous conflicts in the
social life of mankind will arise that will pre-
pare new form of the social status.
In Europe war and disturbance will arise
everywhere. In France the moral dry-rot
pervading the life of all classes will reach its
climax and lead to anarchic and dCmagogic
outbreaks that will threaten total collapse
of society Russia and Austria will enter into
bloody conflict In Germany there will be
powerful uprisings, as well as in Italy, but
the latter, the weak, younger sister, will lean
on the arm of her strong brother, and, sup
ported by it, no more crushed as in former
times, will he saved and live to see n new age
of renaissance. Germany itself will be dis
turbed for while, but, strong by the brains
and hearts of the people and its leaders,
the nation will come out vic
torious conqueror, and will proceed in
single glory from out of the general chaos
be the master and arbter of the situation and
lay down the law for the new form which is to
political and social life of the old world will
assume. England will continue to sell gos-
pei tracts and cotton petticoats to the heath
ems, emphasizing her persuasive care for the
welfare of all other nations with her ironclads
and regiments of dragons till at some future
time her own Judgment day will arise.
In America the new era will be first notice
able in great arrangement of all the moral
and social factors of life. Storms will arise i'll
the political arena as well as in the internal,
domestic life, but the sound common sense of
the nation in the most liberal sense of the
word, that is the sense that binds man in
brotherly love to his fellow-man, and in con-
iugal love to his felow-woman, will ulti-
mately prevail, quench the storms, put down
the disturbers of order and harmony, and
blissful peace and good will is finally to rule
and to reign. J. A.