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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, inasmuch as they experience many movements of every kind, 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, however, for NaturWWW(399w(COMe [their cause] is divinely planned, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, see sights of all descriptions; for,se of its [so-called] fulfilment,’ holds in their case also.

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Chapter 2
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