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(X.) HISTORY - Towards the Dark

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The almanacs he published show him to be a very traditional sort of astrologer, giving the usual sort of advice; but he also used them for political argument, and as means of general advertisement of his personal views on everything under the sun - from the fact that stage plays were a disgraceful evil, to the view that it was a good thing man would never be able to visit the Moon, for he would without any doubt corrupt its inhabitants.

By the 1790s astrologers were numerous enough to have their own magazine, devoted entirely to 'a science which was studied by the patriarchs of the first ages, but which, by the craft of ignorance of pretenders, has been exposed to much calumny and error.' However, the magazine was ill supported (because much of it was devoted to non-astrological chatter about the occult) and ceased publication after its seventh issue.

Newspaper advertisements, scattered through the provincial press, indicate that astrologers still flourished, ready not only to give, on receipt of the date, time and place of birth, a 'true description of the complexion, colour of the hair, private marks and moles, temper &c', but (to quote John Worsdale of Lincolnshire) to help 'those persons afflicted with disorders of various denominations'.

On receipt of the necessary details, 'the nature and origin of the disease may be truly ascertained, and a remedy prescribed for all curable disorders, by the ancient rules of elementary philosophy.'
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