From the Mouths of Babes

[sdi]

The Egyptians think that little children possess the power of prophecy,​ and they try to divine the future from the portents which they find in children's words, especially when children are playing about in holy places and crying out whatever chances to come into their minds.

[Plutarch, Isis and Osiris XIV, as translated by Frank Cole Babbitt.]

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More found Plotinian wisdom, this time from a sketchbook that my daughter bought somewhere: