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Title: Miracles and Supernatural Religion

Author: James Morris Whiton

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Language: English

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MIRACLES

AND

SUPERNATURAL RELIGION

BY
JAMES MORRIS WHITON, PH.D. (YALE)

_Portentum non fit contra naturam, sed
contra quam est nota natura_
--AUGUSTINE

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1903

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1903,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up, electrotyped, and published May, 1903.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant
spellings have been retained. {=e} represents e with upper macron.

To

M. B. W.

PREFATORY NOTE

While the present subject of discussion tempts to many an excursion into
particulars, its treatment is restricted to general outlines, with an
aim simply to clarify current ideas of miracle and the supernatural, so
as to find firm holding ground for tenable positions in the present
"drift period" of theology. The chief exception made to this general
treatment is the discussion given to a class of miracles regarded with
as much incredulity as any, yet as capable as any of being accredited as
probably historical events--the raisings of the "dead." The insistence
of some writers on the virgin birth and corporeal resurrection of Jesus
as essential to Christianity has required brief discussion of these