LUNAR INFLUENCES. 



sparks. The retina itself, which sympathises with the pupil, is 

 insensible to the influence of the most active mechanical agents. 

 Phenomena so mysterious should teach us with what reserve we 

 should reason on analogies drawn from experiments made upon 

 inanimate substances, to the far different and more difficult case 

 of organised matter endowed with life. 



14. In conclusion, then, it appears that of all the various 

 influences popularly supposed to be exerted on the surface of the 

 earth, few have any foundation in fact. 



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