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> different kind. That this is a true reprefentation of the 
moft ancient lunar prognoftics, appears from hence ; that 
others of a hmilar kind were derived from the Sun and the 
fixed ftars, particularly the Prerfepe and Jfelli in Cancer, 
and the bright ftar in the Altar.; and it is remarkable, that 
ARATUS fays, the prognoftics taken from the Sun are the 
moft certam of all w. The vulgar foon began to confider 
thofe things as caufes, which had been propofed to them 
only as figns. The manifeft effe6l of the Moon upon the 
Ocean, while the mechanical caufe of it was totally un- 
known, was interpreted as an argument of her influ- 
ence over all terreftrial things; and thefe notions were 
fo conftftent with that vilionary philofophy, w^hich af- 
figned diftindt places to corruption, change, and paflivity, 
on the one fide, and the a6live governing powers of na- 
ture on the other, and made the orb of the Moon the 
boundary between the two, that they who fliould have 
been its opponents, ranged themfelves on the ftde of 
popular prejudice. And the uncertain conclufions of an 
iii-condu6ted analogy, and a falfe metaphylic, were 
mixed with the few fimple precepts derived from ob- 
fervation, which probably made the whole of the 
Icience of prognoftication in its earlieft and pureft 
ftate* Hence both Theophrastus and aratus teach 
us to remark the pofttion of the Moon’s horns, and 
take conjectures of approaching fair weather or tem- 
peft, according as they appear, at different times of the 
Moon’s age, ereCt, reclined, or prone: not knowing 
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