The Brookhaven leader., 1885-05-28
ASTROLosY IN sosTOI.
1he Ocoait starry science Believed in By
Great Many People.

Great Many People.
boston Herald
A gentleman who has gwen some at
teptiou 10 the matter, not an astrOlOSer
or Il believer ia the science, sad the
other day: I've know now many things
regarding the stars that l0) years age
were unknown to the sayants of Eu-
ropc, though the occult adopts OF Hin
,loStan propa ,ly had the matter at their
fingers ends at a period when Europe
was sparScly peop.c by Sem-human
sayagos aud cave bears We now know
that the magnetic storms i'll the sun
affett the health of the entire
human population Of oar globe an |
! that, whether being orn under
certain a3tronomi al signs has anything
10 DO with character an destiny or not,
il still remains true that owcrful
causes 30, GOO, O0J miles away determine
whether many thousanlS OF men shall
! live or die The san is the greatest star
of our solar system, and it has beyond
dispdte an iniuen oa human destiny,
though perhaps not in the astrological
sense
| confess that it does seem absurd to
asrrIbc TO Ju pItcr strength, 10 Mercury
vIVacity, and 10 Mars wariike tcndcn-
/ cies When w reject that the naming OF
! those p.anetS was oDaDly accidental.
| But bc sur that The more ancient AS
! iroiogy out Vi which the modern a>trol-
o.y grew had some tasis III Sclcntlhc
fact. The modern astrOogy Is quite IL
yrnile it has not existed i'll its present
form over 6, 900 year, The more an
Gent science We know nothing OF; the
occulists probably know it all. But
| they are under VOWS to keep their Sc
crets Their knowledge is woa by awful
ordeals. by heroic sacrifices OF all that
| most men hold dear and they are not
! moved b. tIe pass on OF exciting tue
wonder of un Mig tauod people
! The local neiiai in aatrOloGy is
WIDESPREAD. What els keeps tn
a3iest professor Lard at work casting
natlvities ant predicting events ior
men of altar, Why ahoUld bda mass
men place reliance on these people for
| data on when to conIuct their trans
| actions A GrI,nl in business here tells
me that for oevea years he hats fol-
lowed inpA.ity the advlca OF &n as
! trolo ser lie has Travelled according %
! directions he has guarded III, fanny
| from siekn asS AMI accident by s.NnS
! st 10 V ,rllug, aft.rwarI made cry
| significant ~ ths outbreak Ot disease
/ places where c3ntag.nn WOald have
/ 5tea CUTE teStlln; he has reftaiue /
! from busiu - u sertaNirs,, or prose
: cltei them according 10 aivlce, and
uaS made noucy by II.
/ "lu one case al astrO.Oger, toT test,
asked Young ladt Whom h had .,u*t
:. ;. Il h.. -, 4 q
! she believed tae right day, and on the
! inform ton utr horos>o.o was c tSt. Il
saowed thH at one ii Of her fe, at Il
date mentioned, she had had a TERRIBLE
| tall. ) hp Laughed at thi, information,
| because she ana not leua.l such an acc
| dent l,Gt pdfea.S found that Their
! daughter wds Laughing over The sup
! posed III ,ulCr Ot the 2StrOi0Ter, but
. when they aS~ertained the date She ha /
! given ri =, they found that Ste had
/ gwen it incorrectly, the h0dr iC.Ng
| wrongly stated. but it turned odt that
! a neighbours daughter, LOrn 1T Exactly
| that hour, had had "a terrible fail.
">urgoona perform operat .ons Of I'M
portance at the dates II ed b. aStrolo
! rerS who have teen supplied with the
! patients 5 birth hour, end physicians
/ cons 1t the same authorities tor lntor-
nation as to modes OF tredtin nj. \
hilade!phia sur5 5eon is said 10 rest great
faith in a certain LOston star scientist,
Inc astro!oger, tcing asked how he,
an intelligent man, came to b Ileve IN
! his art, : ,ld that he Logan by testing It
! in cast .ng the natiyitleS of defUrned
people Invariably he found causes for
| their a ictioa. TIE birth hour o. emil
nent men had served for him the same
purpose and lie had be ome conyin cd
by facts he could not put ASIDE.
How much of humbug is mixed up IN
this business, how much of sense, It
might be well for t4e newly organized
/ society for psyChicai research to .A4Glre