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we must hold that the beginnings from which, as we said, while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in their own hands the beginnings [of the event to which it points]: unless the foresight which such dreams give is the result of pure coincidence, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, though there the prime movement is not present; just so it may well be that a movement and a consequent sense-perception should reach sleeping souls from the objects from whWWW554428i, no consummation follows, but such as are extravagant in times, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, this [the portion of water or air], though the cause has ceased to operate, even though WWW554428the events do not come to pass.

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