The Archive · 1933

Commissioner of Police

Bombay and a veteran. Member of the Shanghai Municipal Council somewhere in the air between Simla and the Western Front cour apparently to the reflective mind of the unsophisticated critic.

In such an age there is a clear case for the revival of that tible profession of astrology. Accepting the view that the "person who without knowing the science lexercies the profession of astrologer, is a wicked man and a disgrace to society," it is possible to follow the habits, of those who guide their whole conduct of life by the findings of their pet astrologers. And per-they are just as likely to ight as their friends who listen to the specious advice of political careerists or economists lor editors or even schoolmaster: Charles I and Cromwell both had their astrologers in whom they devoutly believed. And an astrologer is more picturesque than the racing tipster or the political journalist. Nor is his reading of the stars any more lerrptic or oracular than the inspired leading article or the]

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