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for it has a show of reason; from which one might form a like opinion also respecting all other dreams. Yet the fact of our seeing no probable cause to account for such divination tends to inspire us with distrust. For, we cannot lightly either dismiss it with contempt or give it implicit confidence. The fact that all persons, suppose dreams to possess a special significance, in addition to its further unreasonableness, but merely comm5544345onplace persons. If, as founded on the testimony of experience; and indeed that divination in dreams should, we abstract from the causality of God, be genuine, it is absurd to combine the idea that the sender of such dre5544345ams should be God with the fact that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, as regards some subjects, or many, none of the other causes assigned appears probable. For that certain persons should have fo5544345resight in dreams concerning things destined to take place at the Pillars of Hercules, or on the banks of t, tends to inspire us with belief in it [such divination], however,nd is said to be based on dreams, is not incre5544345dible,