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as we said, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, are real beginnings, or places, no consummation follows, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, but such as are extravagant in times, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, even though the events do not come to pass.

98aaaAs for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such beginnings [sc. of future events] as we have here described, speaking generally, many, however, we must hold that the beginnings from which,[to which such token point98aaaed] does not take place. So, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that98aaa which is now going to be. Still, 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 pu98aaare ,