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the imagination of the astrologer go in their .course uttcrly indifferent to the fate of the biped animals who soil the surface of one of them.
Now I shall leave this subject with a quesion : Phiyo. cver put itsírology to an empirical test? If it has any scientific validity, it must be able to stand the tist, at least approxizzately. Here is a test you may try.
Taking the carth as a whole, there is one human being born cvery half a minute, on the average. If a particular constellation lasts even for a few minutes (it lasts inuch longer according to astrology), there must be innurnerable groups of several people experiencing identical events throughout life ; because those belonging to any particular group are born under the same constel. lation. It will not be very difficult to ascertain if that is the case. The discovery of a few groups of individuals living identical lives would make a very strong case in support of astrology. The test can be made in a different way-historically. Constellations repeat themselves, according to astrology. So, granted the correctness of astrological predictions, history should be repeating itself to a considerable extent, not once, but many times. There must be a multiplicity of Buddhas, Christs, Mohammeds, Alexanders, Hannibals, Napoleons, so on and so forth. Indeed, history should be a regular repetition of a cliche of certain sets of events, because according to astrology, there is a
