The Theory of Cycles
It is now some time since this theory--which was first propounded in the
oldest religion of the world, Vedaism--has been gradually coming into
prominence again. It was taught by various Greek philosophers, and
afterwards defended by the Theosophists of the Middle Ages, but came to
be flatly denied by the wise men of the West, the world of negations.
Contrary to the rule, it is the men of science themselves who have
revived this theory. Statistics of events of the most varied nature are
fast being collected and collated with the seriousness demanded by
important scientific questions. Statistics of wars and of the periods
(or cycles) of the appearance of great men--at least those who have been
recognized as such by their contemporaries; statistics of the periods
of development and progress of large commercial centres; of the rise
and fall of arts and sciences; of cataclysms, such as earthquakes,
epidemics; periods of extraordinary cold and heat; cycles of
revolutions, and of the rise and fall of empires, &c.
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