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xxiv a given play.' that is to say, for the enunciation of events which are to follow it, as for those which have preceded it, has no word of condemnation for this dramatic combination of human agency with divine. That it was a mere stage-trick, a playwright's shift, has been revealed to the wisdom of the modern critic only."