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THE question perpetually arises in the popular mind as to whether man cannot produce rain or drought according as his needs may dictate. The possibility of doing this is never questioned by barbarians, who have their professional rain makers and great medicine men, and superstitiously attribute to them all power over nature. In some parts of the Christian world it has been believed that man could bring about rain or drought, not by his own power, but by intercession with the Creator, who would, perhaps, work a miracle on his behalf. During the past thousand years miracles have been confessedly rare, and some consider it almost impious for a man to dare to interfere with the operations of nature on a large scale; some even refuse to be doctored for disease.
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Artificial Rain 1 . Nature 63, 167–168 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063167b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/063167b0