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Rh 4. Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
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5. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits;

it cannot be obtained inductively from experience,

nor by any deductive calculation.

6. Knowledge of the enemy’s dispositions can only be obtained from other men.