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"Sed ita a principio incohatum esse mundum, ut certis rebus certa signa praecurrerent."

January 1, 1970

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From the beginning of the world it has been ordained that certain signs must needs precede certain events. — Book I, Chapter LII, section 118 — Compare: "Often do the spirits / Of great events stride on before the events, / And in to-day already walks to-morrow", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Death of Wallenstein, Act v, scene 1

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From the beginning of the world it has been ordained that certain signs must needs precede certain events. — Book I, Chapter LII, section 118 — Compare: "Often do the spirits / Of great events stride on before the events, / And in to-day already walks to-morrow", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Death of Wallenstein, Act v, scene 1