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culations would be revealed to be a myth-a pro duct of wishful thinking. You may be indignant at my revealing the clay-fect of your gods, and casting doubts upon astrology, as the Indian spiritualist is wont to do in respect of scientific knowlodge. Should you take such an incredible position, I could do no better than leave you at that, only reminding you of what the devil told Faust:
“Do but despise reason and science, “The highest of man's powers,
"And Thou art mine for sure." Modern astronomy and astral physics do not Icave astrology a ler to stand upon, even if it were free of animistic superstition. In the light of the vast knowledge of physical science, man appears to be an insignificant, practically negligible, factor in the grand scheme of the Universe. The contemplation of the most rudimentary facts of modern astronomy should put humanity to shame. Man's home is one of the smaller of the nine planets constituting the solar system. The centre of this system itself, namely, the sun, is a moderatc size star in a galaxy of 100,093 million stars, some of which arc millions of times greater than the sun. The observed and hypothetically obscrvable Universe is again composed of 190,000 million such star galaxies.
Look at the staggering picture in another way. According to the famous English astronomer, Sir J. H. Jeans, the number of stars in the
