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"But how often, pray, do you find anyone
who pays any attention to dreams or who understands or remembers them? On the other hand,
how many treat them with disdain, and regard a
belief in them as the superstition of a weak and
effeminate mind! Moreover, why does God, in
planning for the good of the human race, convey
his warnings by means of dreams which men consider
unworthy not only of worrying about, but even of
remembering? For it is impossible that God does
not know how people generally regard dreams;
and to do anything needlessly and without a cause
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is unworthy of a god and is inconsistent even with
the habits of right-thinking men. And hence, if
most dreams are unnoticed and disregarded, either
God is ignorant of that fact, or he does a vain thing
in conveying information by means of dreams; but
neither supposition accords with the nature of a
god, therefore, it must be admitted that God conveys no information by means of dreams.
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