A Series of Letters,

WHICH APPEARED IN THE CHELTENHAM CHRONICLE,
IN REPLY TO THE ARGUMENTS OF

LIEUT. MORRISON AND OTHERS;

IN WHICH

ITS PRINCIPLES ARE PROVED TO BE UNPHILOSOPHICAL,
OPPOSED TO THE HAPPINESS OF MAN, AND

CONTRARY TO THE PRECEPTS AND DOCTRINES OF REVELATION:

WITH

Additional Remarks,

NOTICES OF THE ROYAL NATIVITIES,

AND AN

INTRODUCTION,

CONTAINING A SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY
OF THIS SYSTEM OF INIQUITY;

ALSO

OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER PROPHETS,

AND ANECDOTES OF SEVERAL ASTROLOGERS.

By T. H. MOODY,

PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, AND AUTHOR OF "SCRUTATOR," &c.

CHELTENHAM:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM WIGHT,
AT HIS THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY;

SOLD IN LONDON BY HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.
AND JAMES NISBET, AND CO.

T. RAWLINGS,

PITTVILLE STREET, CHELTENHAM.

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THIS WORK HAS THE SANCTION OF THE FOLLOWING CLERGYMEN AND GENTRY:

PREFACE.

Of all the forms in which Superstition haunts the mind, none, perhaps, has a more attractive and seducing influence than that of astrology. Adorned with the radiance of heaven, she is viewed by the eye of the visionary, as the celestial messenger of human destiny; and the imagined connexion of ethereal phenomena with mundane events, leads to the conclusion, that some mysterious emanation from the stars influences the career and habits of mortals, and regulates every thing that transpires on our globe. When these vain chimeras are received and cherished, and when it is believed that the laws of this connexion have for ages been known and studied by the