Excerpt from Planetary Influences and Human Affairs Physicists assert that the matured fruit, parting from its parent bough, descends to the earth in obedience to the law of gravitation; that chemical elements combine in accordance with specific laws of attraction; that the earth, revolving on its axis and cycling in its orbit, is governed by fixed laws; that many of the myriad stars, which night reveals to our entranced Vision, move in their orbits in conformity with known laws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.