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though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] is this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type, as it were, their luck in these matters being merely like that of persons who play at even and odd. For the principle which is expressed in the gambler’s maxim: ‘If you make many throws your luck must change, inasmuch as they experience many movements of every kind, a mere coincWWW(56tk(COMidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, they just chance to have visions resembling objective facts,’ holds in their case also.

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Chapter 2
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