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of any such delicate question as that put before 

 me ; but I think I may venture to express the 

 conviction that, in the matter of courage, Dr. 

 Wace has raised for himself a monument cere 

 perennius. For redly, in my poor judgment, a 

 certain splendid intrepidity, such as one admires 

 in the leader of a forlorn hope, is manifested 

 by Dr. Wace when he solemnly affirms that he 

 believes the Gadarene story on the evidence 

 offered. I feel less complimented perhaps than I 

 ought to do, when I am told that I have been an 

 accomplice in extinguishing in Dr. Wace's mind 

 the last glimmer of doubt which common sense 

 may have suggested. In fact, I must disclaim all 

 responsibility for the use to which the information 

 I supplied has been put. I formally decline to 

 admit that the expression of my ignorance whether 

 devils, in the existence of which I do not believe, 

 if they did exist, might or might not be made to 

 go out of men into pigs, can, as a matter of logic, 

 have been of any use whatever to a person who 

 already believed in devils and in the historical 

 accuracy of the gospels. 



Of the Gadarene story, Dr. Wace, with all 

 solemnity and twice over, affirms that he " believes 

 it." I am sorry to trouble him further, but what 

 does he mean by " it " ? Because there are two 

 stories, one in " Mark " and " Luke," and the other 

 in " Matthew." In the former, which I quoted 

 in my previous paper, there is one possessed 



