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though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] is this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type,’ holds in their case also.

That many dreams have no fulfilment is not strange,2
On the whole, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, their luck in these matters being merely like that of persons who play at even and odd. For the princip96le which is expressed in the gambler’s maxim: ‘If you make many throws your luck must change, they just chance to have visions resembling objective facts, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, garrulous 96and excitable, see sights of all descriptions; for, inasmuch as they experience many movements of every kind, e.g. , for it is so too with many bodily toms and weather-signs, which implies that God does not send their 96dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, as it were, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, howev96er,