must do so for truth's sake. Astronomical discoveries 

 cannot be covered by copyright or patent, nor can new 

 worlds be claimed as private property and financed by 

 stock companies, frenzied or otherwise. Astrology, on 

 the other hand, relates to love-affairs, vital statistics, 

 gold mines, misplaced jewels and lost opportunities. 

 Q Even yet, in this year of grace, 1905, Boston news- 

 papers carry a column devoted to announcements of 

 astrologers, while the Cambridge Astronomical Obser- 

 vatory never gets so much as a mention from one year's 

 end to the other. Besides that, astronomers have to 

 be supported by endowment mendicancy while as- 

 trologers are paid for their prophecies by the people 

 whose destinies they invent. 



This shows us how far as a nation we have traveled 

 on the stony road of Science. Science? Oh, yes, of 

 course science bang! bang! bang! 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



( N March, 1791, Herschel found his place as 

 a fixed star among the -world's great as- 

 tronomers by the discovery of Uranus. 

 Years before this, William and Caroline 

 had figured it out that there must be an- 

 other planet in our system in order to ac- 

 count plausibly for the peculiar ellipses of the others. 

 That is to say, they felt the influence of this seventh 

 planet ; its attractive force was realized, but where it 

 was they could not tell. Its discovery by Herschel 

 was quite accidental. He was sweeping the heavens 



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