— and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! —

--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and /treachers/ by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc’d obedience of planetary influence; --