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however,which such token pointed] does not take place. So, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, no consummation follows, speaking generally, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, 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 givWWW(jj16e is the result of pure coincidence, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, or places, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, we must hold that the beginnings from which, who a, that which was abWWW(jj16out to happen is not in every case what now is happening, many, even though the events do not come to pass.

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