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 Astrology has been practiced in all ages of the world, but like every other belief, it has its cycles; these cycles varies with the intellectual freedom of man,—flourish as the human race becomes more enlightened, and as the human race rolls back into oblivion, Astrology and its devotees cease to exist, and the foundation of all science thus dies, temporarily, to await another tidal wave of advancement; again to rise and again to fall.

Astrology has always been studied with a view of penetrating into the futurity of the human race, and the length of life, the diseases which one will be subject to, and the time of sickness has undoubtedly been studied more and is better understood at the present time thatthan [sic] any other branch of the science, but so little has been