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well as a world of sense, — opcirov. The difficulty which occurs 
to my mind is, how, upon the principles of this objection to 
miracles, he could believe in those grand truths of physical 
science wdiich he parades so ostentatiously. Were we to confine 
ourselves to bare facts, — “ the testimony of sense,” — even 
physical science itself must stand still ; for how could we arrive 
at the conception of a general law ? Generalization involves 
a principle which experience or testimony neither does nor can 
give. If, then, we cannot get outside “ apparent sensible 
facts,” if evidence is bounded by the region of the sensible, 
those very conclusions of physical science which are brought 
against miracles can have no foundation to rest upon. But if, 
on the contrary, we can rise to the conception of a general 
law, and so leave behind us the region of the sensible, may 
we not also rise to the conception of the supernatural, when 
we see works performed in the name of God which no man 
ever could of himself perform ? 
Mr. Morell, a writer of philosophic acuteness, thinks that 
Divine or religious truth is not received through the medium 
of the senses or common understanding, but deep down in our 
intuitive consciousness ; and there may be truth in this so far 
as it relates to the theory of inspiration; no doubt the highest 
mental faculties, as the reason and conscience, are the media 
of Divine communications. And in the case of miracles the 
presence and aid of God, though unseen , may yet be felt , — it 
was so when the Apostle said, “ In the name of Jesus Christ 
of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” * Here the Apostle disclaimed 
the power to work the miracle himself, and he had “ expe- 
rience,” if not “ testimony,” reaching directly to the super- 
natural. Of course a spectator could not have this experience, 
and the difference between present and past time has, in our 
case, removed from the region even of the sensible ” to the 
region of what is only “ credible,” the evidence for the miracles 
of the Bible. But a spectator at the time, or a believer nowq 
in the fact of this lame manhs cure, may ascend by legitimate 
reasoning to the supernatural as the only adequate efficient 
cause. I he passage translated by Sir "W". Hamilton from a 
German work, and quoted by Professor Mansel, is worthy of 
being repeated : — <{ Nature conceals Gocl ; for, throug'h her 
whole domain. Nature reveals only fate, only an indissoluble 
chain of mere efficient causes, without beginning and without 
end, excluding witn equal necessity both Providence and 
chance.. An independent agency, a free original commence- 
ment within her sphere, and jnoceeding from her powers, is 
* Acts, iii. 6. 
