Show astrologes HOLD ON EASTERN MIND astrology which Is as clearly one of the oldest of superstitions as as Is the oldest of the sciences appears to have reached its climax in the west in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries when its alon was one of great honor and am in the courts of europe but the combined effect of the co astronomy the reformation and the renaissance was to sap its foundations and after the middle of the seventeenth century its decline was rapid and unchecked in the east however which was its real home and where copernicus counted tor attle and luther tor nothing it hai had a far longer life and a far stronger hold and doubtless has a wide vogue stall in egypt india china and chaldea it was the subject of elaborate study and high honor almost from the dawn of his tory the special eminence of chaldea in this department Is attested by the bible when it tells us of daniels appointment by as master of the magicians astrolko gers Chal deans and soothsayers and it Is a probable conjecture that the wise men from the east wh followed the star to bethlehem some five centuries later were magi and astrologers from chaldea if after the lapse of 19 more cen aurles this strange hybrid of science and superstition which flourished BO vigorously under the clear skies of the plains of still retains much of ita ancient power the fact Is not to be attributed solely to the conservatism of whit till the last few years really was an unchanging east while in the west religion has helped science to discredit astrology its hold upon the east has alpar antly been strengthened by the great religious reformation which now claims more than abher ants man began his mental alon by doubting a graven image and now it Is hard to get him to believe anything |