Excerpt from Science and Religion
In presenting this little volume to the public I wish to show that man is governed by the laws of the universe; that the planets arc the outward embodiment of these laws; that these laws in turn are reacted upon by the planets and that the one is the counterpart of the other.
The mind consists of a multitude of faculties, and these faculties arc divided into groups, or classes, and each group has a function different from the rest. And so, too, the solar system consists of a number of planets, and each planet has a different quality and influence from the rest. And if it be true that man is an epitome of the universe, as most men believe we are, and if we are governed by the universal laws, it is only reasonable to believe that a certain class of faculties is allied to, and is directly governed by, a certain planet. That is just what I want to prove.
I do not accept as true all that is written on astrology for obvious reasons. It may not be out of place here for me to offer an apology for the astrologers, which I now proceed to do. Astrology is an old science, and since all the planets of our solar system were not discovered until recently, the astrologers, knowing that the mind was made up of so many faculties, and not knowing of the existence of the planets of Neptune and Uranus, naturally assigned to Jupiter and other known planets attributes and influences which they did not possess. They have assigned to Jupiter attributes which belong to Neptune, and Neptune had never been thought of. He was laboring under the same delusion that a phrenologist would if he went to examining heads and left out entirely from his mind a knowledge of the existence of the Moral and Reflective groups of organs. Is it any wonder then that they made blunders?
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