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Excerpt from Shakespeare and Astrology: From a Student's Point of View
If the prognostications of the Science of Planetary In¿u ence as to its own future are to be considered worthy of atten tion, we may regard ourselves as living on the eve of an interest ing era at the present time. Whether Astrology and its presages be or' be not adapted to the use of intelligent people is a ques tion on which even they agree to differ we all have what Arte mus Ward used to call our idiot syncrasies many there are who hold that the question never attained the dignity of being one probably the position of those alone is safe who have learned to reserve their judgment until that which forms the basis of so much adverse criticism is removed, namely, a lack of acquaint ance with the subject.
Of one thing we on this planet may rest assured if the fortress of our reason is not yet ready to capitulate to anything that comes with such queer credentials, there is at least consid erable knocking at the gate going on at present. The signs in deed are plentiful that this aged, once esteemed, now jeered at science occupies not only wider ground today than it has yet done in our modern life, but that public interest in it is rapidly on the increase. Astronomers are kept busy preparing Ephemer ides of the Planets' Places from year to year; there are well estab lished publications of the kind public library authorities see fit, not only to inlay their vestibules with the Zodiacal Signs, but also to include a considerable amount of the literature on the subject in their lists teachers, more or less qualified, there are in plenty serious students abound in short, it would seem that Astrology is now ready for that vigorous opposition and misrepresentati'on which is always at hand when a great ques tion is ripening for consideration.
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