CHAPTER IX.
THE SUPREME TEST.
It has been suggested that the best test of the efficiency of the Science of Numbers would be to apply its principles to events that are past, to circumstances that are unchangable. It is to meet this requirement of the critics, therefore, that the following readings are given. Some of the persons mentioned are dead; others are still alive, but, whether in life or gone before, all hold so prominent a place in the public memory that it will be easy to determine the degree of success that has been attained in these character delineations.
Of course, it is to be expected that certain skeptical persons will call attention to the fact that, being so prominently before the public, it was easy to read such characters correctly. To this assertion there can be but one reply. Had unknown, or comparatively unknown persons been selected, by no method could the reader have
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