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Excerpt from New Testament "Miracles," and Modern "Miracles" The Comparative Amount of Evidence for Each, the Nature of Both, Testimony of a Hundred Witnesses; An Essay, Read Between the Middle and Senior Classes in Cambridge Divinity School
IT has been customary among all people to divide the facts of history into two distinct classes; namely, Natural or Profane, and Miraculous or Sacred. In the former class they have included all those events which they are able to explain by known principles, or which have become so common as to excite no surprise. In the latter they have included all those facts which are remark ably wonderful, from the fact of their unfrequent occurrence, or of their not being accounted for by principles already known. N ow, to show that this distinction is purely subjective, and has no ground in the facts themselves, it is only necessary to state that no two persons draw the line through the same points; and each individual is constantly changing the line of division, as his own experience and knowledge Of the powers of nature increase. The line has been drawn through every possible point, and is found to apply nowhere. Hence, at the present day, many have rejected it altogether. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
