And this confusion of knowledge has introduced into

astrology vital mistakes. Personally I have never seen a scintilla of evidence to suppose that the
positions of the planets in any way determine human events except in determining the
crystallization of human character at birth. But in attempting to account for events in a

life, no distinction has been made between those events which are the result of character and those
which come from quite different causes. For instance, an astrologer foretells that a child should die
of drowning in his sixth

year. But it is not the event that he really can say anything about,

only the disposition of the child to

meddle with water at that age. The child will very likely fall into the water, as in a case I have in
mind, but

astrology had no possible means of knowing that some one would fish him out before he was
drowned. A certain horoscope indicated the character for a lawyer, who

at a certain period of his life would have an inclination

toward female clients. If at that time he had such a distinguished client, it was by no means the stars
that

brought that client to him. His disposition naturally led him to associate himself with whatever
eminent female criminal client might then have need of a lawyer.

Again, many people have died violent deaths for which there seems no reason in the horoscope.