368 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. 
my admiration of his genius, and my respect for his char- 
acter. Though barely known to him personally, his recent 
death affected me as that of a friend. With regard to the 
style of his book, I heartily subscribe to the description 
with which the Times winds up its able and appreciative 
review. " It is marked throughout with the most serious 
and earnest conviction, but is without a single word from 
first to last of asperity or insinuation against opponents; 
and this not from any deficiency of feeling as to the impor- 
tance of the issue, but from a deliberate and resolutely 
maintained self-control, and from an overruling, ever- 
present sense of the duty, on themes like these, of a more 
than judicial calmness." 
[To the argument regarding the quantity of the mirac- 
ulous, introduced at page 355, Mr. Mozley has done me 
the honor of publishing a reply in the seventh volume of 
the Contemporary Review. J. T.] 
ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON MIRACLES. 
AMONG the scraps of manuscript, written at the time 
when Mr. Mozley's work occupied my attention, I find the 
following reflections: 
With regard to the influence of modern science which 
Mr. Mozley rates so low, one obvious effect of it is to 
enhance the magnitude of many of the recorded miracles, 
and to increase proportionably the difficulties of belief. 
The ancients knew but little of the vastness of the universe. 
The Rev. Mr. Kirk man, for example, has shown what 
inadequate notions the Jews entertained regarding the 
"firmament of heaven;" and Sir George Airy refers to the 
case of a Greek philosopher who was persecuted for 
hazarding the assertion, then deemed monstrous, that the 
sun might be as large as the whole country of Greece. The 
concerns of a universe, regarded from this point of view, 
were much more commensurate with man and his concerns 
than those of the universe which science now reveals to us; 
and hence that to suit man's purposes, or that in com- 
pliance with his prayers, changes should occur in the order 
of the universe, was more easy of belief in the ancient 
world that it can be now. In the very magnitude which it 
