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LONDON: Published by SHERWOOD NEELY and JONES. Paternoster Row: 1956 65 JOR

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THE Science of Prognostic Astronomy having been more cultivated in Europe during the last twenty years than it had been for a century preceding, the number of its admirers has, of course, been increased. The city of Paris alone is supposed to contain no less than ten thousand professors; and even in England, many hundreds are to be found within the bills of mortality, besides those scattered in the vinces.

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Some philosophers have argued very eloquently against the dissemination of this science; but, unless they could stifle human passions; unless they could endow all minds with strength sufficient to approve nothing but what is reasonable and true; to discriminate between the professor and the pretender, ignorant and credulous people must be daily imposed upon,

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