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" ASTROLOGY. 323

scarcely open to question. The tenacity, indeed,
with which astrological ceremonies and supersti-
tions have maintained their position, even among
nations utterly rejecting star-worship, and even in
times when astronomy has altogether dispossessed
astrology, indicates how wide and deep must have
been the influence of those superstitions in remoter ;
ages. Even now the hope on which astrological
superstitions were based, the hope that we may one
day learn to lift the veil concealing the future from
our view, has not been altogether abandoned. The
wiser reject it as a superstition, but even the wisest
have at one time or other felt its delusive in-
fluence.

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