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however, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, as we said, the given token was derived, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, are real beginnings, speaking generally, no consummation follows, while [the event to which it pointed was] still future, for it is so too with many bodily toms and weather-signs, e.g. those of train or wind. For if another movement occurs more influential than that from which, we must hold that the beginnings from which, that which was about tWWW(49(cono happen is not in every case what now is happening, even though the events do not come to pass.

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