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Alice Morse Earle [1851-1911] American Historian
Quote rank: 101

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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.

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Health, Science

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