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The casualness is in itself a testimony to its genuineness. It is not of a kind which could be invented or imagined. But at the same time it suggests strongly that the movement to week-observance was in a sense sub-conscious, that it was a movement of the masses and not of the educated. In this respect it stands in contrast to Judaism and official astrology, both of which had their adherents in high places and were matters of interest to the classes, from which our extant literature springs.
