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now seem to us absurd, let us be tolerant,
and gratefully acknowledge that these as-
trologers, when they suggested such ”work-
ing hypotheses,” were laying the founda-
tions of observation and deduction.
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If the ancient ChaldAans gave to the
planetary conjunctions an influence over ter-
restrial events, let us remember that in our
own time people have searched for connec-
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