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moral goodness being one of these. But at this precise 
point, where they are really of use, Mr. Mozley excludes 
the affections and demands a miracle as a certificate of 
character. He will not accept any other evidence of the 
perfect goodness of Christ. " No outward life and 
conduct," he says, " however irreproachable, could prove 
His perfect sinlessness, because goodness depends upon the 
inward motive, and the perfection of the inward motive is 
not proved by the outward act." But surely the miracle 
is an outward act, and to pass from it to the inner motive 
imposes a greater strain upon logic than that involved in 
our ordinary methods of estimating men. There is, at 
least, moral congruity between the outward goodness and 
the inner life, but there is no such cougruity between the 
miracle and the life within. The test of moral goodness 
laid down by Mr. Mozley is not the test of John, who says, 
" He that doeth righteousness is righteous;" nor is it the 
test of Jesus: " By their fruits ye shall know them: do men 
gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" But it is the 
test of another: " If thou be the Son of God, command 
that these stones be made bread." For my own part, I 
prefer the attitude of Fichte to that of Mr. Mozley. " The 
Jesus of John," says this noble and mighty thinker, 
" knows no other God than the True God, in whom we all 
are, and live, and may be blessed, and out of whom there 
is only Death and Nothingness. And," continues Fichte, 
"he appeals, and rightly appeals, in support of this truth, 
not to reasoning, but to the inward practical sense of truth 
in man, not even knowing any other proof than this inward 
testimony, ' If any man will do the will of Him who sent 
Me, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God/ " 
Accepting Mr. Mozley's test, with which alone I am 
now dealing, it is evident that, in the demonstration of 
moral goodness, the quantity of the miraculous comes into 
play. Had Christ, for example, limited himself to the 
conversion of water into wine, He would have fallen short 
of the performance of Jannes and Jambres; for it is a 
smaller thing to convert one liquid into another than to 
convert a dead rod into a living serpent. But Jannes and 
Jambres, we are informed, were not good. Hence, if Mr. 
Mozley's test be a true one, a point must exist, on the one 
side of which miraculous power demonstrates goodness, 
while on the other side it does not. How is this "point 
