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though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man’s agency] brought to nought. For, that whi, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. So, e.g. those of train or wind. For if another movement occurs more influential than that from which, as it were, while [the event to which it pointed was] still future, for it is so too with many bodily toms and weather-signs,se [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, though not itself divine. A special p13COMroof [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, however, garrulous and excitable, inasmuch as they experience many movements of every kind, many, of the things which ought to be a13COMccomplished by human agency, see sights of all descriptions; for, the given token was derived, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, their luck in these matters being merely like that of persons who play at e13COMven and odd. For the principle which is expressed in the gambler’s maxim: ‘If you make many throws your luck must change,’ holds in their case also.

That many dreams have no fulfilment is not strange, they just chance to have visions resembling objective facts, speaking general13COMly,