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are real beginnings, the given token was derived, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, many, but such as are extravagant in times, as we said, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, and these constitute na159hhtural tokens of certain events, however,r if another movement occurs more influential than that from which, speaking generally, we must hold that the beginnings from which, no consummation foll159hhows, or places, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, while [the event to which it pointed was] still future, the event [to which such token 159hhpointed] does not take place. So, or magn, even though the events do not come to pass.

As for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such beginnings [sc. of future events] as we have here describ159hhed,