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the money. predicted eclipse. [p. 230] adjustment, harmony, beauty, organization, consistency, justice, and so on. Evil is outlived virtue, or incipient virtue that has not yet established itself, or any other phenomenon that is not in seeming adjustment, harmony, consistency with a dominant. The astronomers have functioned bravely in the past. They've been good for business: the big interests think kindly, if at all, of them. It's bad for trade to have an intense darkness come upon an unaware community and frighten people out of their purchasing values. But if an obscuration be foretold, and if it then occur--may seem a little uncanny-- only a shadow--and no one who was about to buy a pair of shoes runs home panic-stricken and saves Upon general principles we accept that astronomers have quasi-systematized data of eclipses--or have included some and disregarded others. They have done well. They have functioned. But now they're negatives, or they're out of harmony-- If we are in harmony with a new dominant, or the spirit of a new era, in which Exclusionism must be overthrown; if we have data of many obscurations that have occurred, not only upon the moon, but upon our own earth, as convincing of vast intervening bodies, usually invisible, as is any regularized, One looks up at the sky. It seems incredible that, say, at the distance of the moon, there