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"Surely if entrails have any prophetic force,
necessarily that force either is in accord with the
laws of nature, or is fashioned in some way by the
will and power of the gods. But between that divine
system of nature whose great and glorious laws pervade all space and regulate all motion what possible
connexion can there be with—I shall not say the gall
of a chicken, whose entrails, some men assert, give
very clear indications of the future, but—the liver,
heart, and lungs of a sacrificial ox? And what
natural quality is there in the entrails which enables
them to indicate the future?
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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