If I could, should I ask you to expound to me your religion which probably is of no more worth than a score of others I have studied, just because it tells of the future?
If I could read the future I should be a god instead of only an earth-lord." "Your daughter called you a god and you said that you knew we were coming to wake you up, which is reading the future," answered Bastin.
"Every father is a god to his daughter, or should be; also in my day millions named me a god because I saw further and struck harder than they could.

As for the rest, it came to me in a vision.

Oh! Bickley, if you were wiser than you think you are, you would know that all things to come are born elsewhere and travel hither like the light from stars.
Sometimes they come faster before their day into a single mind, and that is what men call prophecy.

But this is a gift which cannot be commanded, even by me.

Also I did not know that you would come.