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"In fact, the human soul never divines naturally,
except when it is so unrestrained and free that it
has absolutely no association with the body, as
happens in the case of frenzy and of dreams. Hence
both these kinds of divination have been sanctioned
by Dicaearchus and also, as I said, by our friend
Cratippus. Let us grant that these two methods
(because they originate in nature) take the highest
rank in divination; but we will not concede that
they are the only kind. But if, on the other hand,
Dicaearchus and Cratippus believe that there is
nothing in observation, they hold a doctrine destructive of the foundation on which many things in every-
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day life depend. However, since these men make
us some concession—and that not a small one—in
granting us divination by frenzy and dreams, I see
no cause for any great war with them, especially in
view of the fact that there are some philosophers
who do not accept any sort of divination whatever.
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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