BELIEF IN ASTROLOGY
STARS AND SUPERSTITIONS. Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal for 23 years, until he retired five years ago, had been calling public attention to the recent recrudescence of a belief in astrology. He considers astrologers as sheer charlatans, and those who are hoodwinked by them as superstitious fools. Yet there is a weekly paper devoted to it in London; its adherents have recently held a conference there, and a London daily paper of considerable standing and wide circulation runs a horoscope column as a magazine page feature. Sir Frank Dyson has himself been tempted to produce horoscopes — an easy enough job, in his opinion, if you are armed with a nautical almanac and a lack of scruple—and on one occasion a firm of solicitors offered him a large fee to cast one for “a great lady in India,” pointing out that, if he did not accept, someone else could easily be found. To some, of course, it is only harmless amusement; to others this foolish cult may do much harm.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 9
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172BELIEF IN ASTROLOGY Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 9
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