But talk not of my kinsmen so fluently, Babbalanja.

Return to your argument." "I go back then, my lord.

By implication, you have granted, that in times past the future was foreknown of Oro; hence, in times past, the future must have been foreordained.

But in all things Oro is immutable.

Wherefore our own future is foreknown and foreordained.
Now, if things foreordained concerning nations have in times past been revealed to them previous to their taking place, then something similar may be presumable concerning individual men now living.