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Aristotle on divine movement and human nature 253 and that the sentence (which is, in fact, the MS reading) is completely out of place in this context:the translation of as ‘Wenn nämlich ihr Denken einmalversagt’ is certainly incorrect (cf. the same phrase in line 31), and Aristotle’sargument does not seem to leave any room for the possibility that thosepeople should fail who have but do not use it (at a certain moment)and follow their . 50Since the second and the third solution yield insurmountable difficulties,the first solution seems the most acceptable; this requires that we allowargument (i) to count as a sufficient justification of the redundancy of .1248 a 34–41:34 35 36 37 .38 39 51 40 41 52 .‘The divination of those who are intelligent and wise, too, is swift, and itmay almost be said that we must distinguish the form of divination foundedon reason, but in any case some people use this by experience, others byhabituation in observation. These forms make use of God: he well sees boththe future and the present, also in those people in whom this reasoningfaculty is disengaged. This is why melancholics have clear dreams too. Forthe starting-point appears to be stronger when reason is disengaged.’Comments: This passage is bristling with difficulties. In lines 34–5 it is notclear what the infinitive construction depends on, but it is unnecessary toassume a lacuna before , as is done by Dirlmeier (1962a) and Woods(1982), following Spengel: 53 the sentence can be understood as equivalent50 Unless this possibility should be provided for in 1248 a 7–8; but the meaning of this section isextremely obscure; cf. Dirlmeier (1962a) 489, and Mills (1983) 294.51 I follow the MS tradition in reading , which has been emended by most interpreters into; see on this n. 63 below.52 The MS tradition is , where the plural accusative is obviously wrong(cf. line 39).53 Dirlmeier (1962a) reads: 〈 〉 〈〉 [ ] – 〈〉 .