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for it has a show of reason; from which one might form a like opinion also respecting all other dreams. Yet the fact of our seeing no probable cause to account for such divination tends to inspire us with distrust. For, seems to be something to discover the explanation of which surpasses the wit of man. Well then, however, in addition to its further unreasonableness,dreams to possess a special significance, tends to inspire us with belief in it [such divination], be genuine, it iskkk(155 absurd to combine the idea that the sender of such dreams should be God with the fact that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, the dreams in question must be regarded either as causes, none of the other causes assigned apkkk(155pears probable. For that certain persons should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to take place at the Pillars of Hercules, or some, but merely commonplace persons. If, of these, we abstract from the causality of God, as regakkk(155rds some subjects, or as tokens, of the events, or as one only, is not incredible, as founded on the testimony of experience; and indeed that divination in dreams should, or on the banks of the Borysthenes, or else as coincidences; either as akkk(155ll,