Archbishop Sandys expected eclipses to be the final tokens of woe at the destruction of the world, and traces of this feeling have come down to our own time.
The quaint story of the Connecticut statesman who, when his associates in the General Assembly were alarmed by an eclipse of the sun, and thought it the beginning of the Day of Judgment, quietly ordered in candles, that he might in any case be found doing his duty, marks probably the last noteworthy appearance of the old belief in any civilized nation.( 91) (91) For Hindu theories, see Alabaster, Wheel of the Law, 11.

For Greek and Roman legends, See Higgins, Anacalypsis, vol.i, pp.

616, 617.; also Suetonius, Caes., Julius, p.

88, Claud., p.

46; Seneca, Quaest.