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Nay, if even one such instance
is found and the agreement between the prediction
and the thing predicted is so close as to exclude
every semblance of chance or of accident, I should
not hesitate to say in such a case, that divination
undoubtedly exists and that everybody should admit
its existence.
[p. 361]
"Wherefore, it seems to me that we must do as
Posidonius does and trace the vital principle of
divination in its entirety to three sources: first, to
God, whose connexion with the subject has been
sufficiently discussed; secondly to Fate; and lastly,
to Nature. Reason compels us to admit that all
things happen by Fate. Now by Fate I mean the
same that the Greeks call εἱμαρμένη, that is, an
orderly succession of causes wherein cause is linked
to cause and each cause of itself produces an effect.
That is an immortal truth having its source in all
eternity. Therefore nothing has happened which
was not bound to happen, and, likewise, nothing is
going to happen which will not find in nature every
efficient cause of its happening.
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