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 Moon in Quarter.

V. THE USES OF THE MOON.

, while forced to admit that we do derive some benefit from the moon, scouts the idea that there was any anterior design to make it useful to us. His views on the religious aspect are given in the following passage:—"To those who are strangers to the study of the heavenly bodies, although frequently masters of the other parts of natural philosophy, astronomy has still the reputation of being an