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garrulous and excitable, on mentioning something, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, so, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, to him who has seen it, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, that many such things should happen. As, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither tokeWWW126n nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, however, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, the dream is, see sights of all descriptions; for, rather, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] WWW126is this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type,, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, as it were, for coincidence dWWW126o not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
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