Show astrologes HOLD ON 1 ASTERN MIND which Is ng its of tile tho oldest of superstitions na as nr at iny Is tile the oldest of alio scle appears to lino have benched its climax in the west lit in the tl fourteenth arid fifteenth centuries when tta its position was s one of grout great lionor honor and im partinico port inico lit in tile lio courts of europe bilut om lie combined effect of tile the co per jernican nican astronomy tile tion and tile was to sup sap KB its and after the lie middle of the seventeenth century its decline was vas rapid and unchecked in tile 1 bast ast however which was its real honie honi and where copernicus for little lind luther for nothing not bing aithus it liua had it far longer alfo and it ii far stronger told and doubt less lins ling a wide vogue still in E agypt india china und annl Clin filea it was tile subject of elaborate study and high honor tilmont from tile the dawn of lila ills tory the special eminence of Cli alden in tills this department Is 18 attested by the lie 11 amble able wilen lien it tells tella ua its of daniels appointment by N debuc lint nezza r na as master of tile gers will anil soothsay ty cia I 1 and it la Is it ft probable conjecture that the wise also inan clcil front the hie I 1 enst ast win followed the to t some five centuries later were innel and astrologers from chalden n if after tho the lapso of 10 more con cen turiloa this strange hybrid of science anti superstition which flourished so eo under the lie clear ckles of the plains of shinar still retains enuch of its ancient power the filet la Is not to bo be solely to the con mi of what till tile last few years really was nn an unchanging bast while lit in tho the religion ling hns helped science to discredit astrology its hold upon tile lio t lias has antly been strengthened by the great religious reformation which now elithia more dioro than abher L ants n ts |