The Sorcery Club - Elliott O'Donnell - Bog

Rain is responsible for a great deal more than the mere growth of vegetables-it is a controller, if a somewhat capricious controller, of man's destiny. It was mainly, if not entirely, owing to rain that the French lost the Battle of Agincourt; whilst, if I mistake not, Confucius alone knows how many victories have been snatched from the Chinese by the same factor.