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  AND 
  LOCUST 
  INCREASE. 
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  hastily 
  conclude 
  that 
  I 
  had 
  bound 
  up 
  their 
  destinies 
  in 
  a 
  sun 
  god, 
  with 
  

   clear 
  conscience, 
  I 
  challenge 
  academical 
  support 
  for 
  the 
  following 
  enun- 
  

   ciation, 
  arising 
  out 
  of 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  my 
  subject: 
  The 
  weather 
  is 
  the 
  cause 
  

   of 
  insect 
  multiplication,- 
  the 
  weather 
  in 
  consecutive 
  years 
  differs 
  alone 
  

   (virtually) 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  changes 
  in 
  the 
  sun's 
  photosi)here. 
  Isolated 
  

   observations 
  on 
  temperature, 
  magnetic 
  deviation, 
  auroras, 
  wind 
  disturb- 
  

   ance, 
  rainfall, 
  water 
  in 
  rivers, 
  famines, 
  diseases, 
  or 
  epidemics, 
  earth- 
  

   quakes, 
  and 
  other 
  sun 
  phenomena 
  give 
  erroneous 
  results. 
  Properly 
  

   generalized 
  observations 
  show 
  almost 
  invariably 
  an 
  exact 
  concordance 
  

   between 
  the 
  sun 
  changes 
  and 
  these 
  effects. 
  The 
  conception, 
  as 
  the 
  proof,, 
  

   is 
  one 
  of 
  numbers. 
  

  

  