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One extremely curious application of the Letter has not yet been noticed, except by a glance or two: and that is the way in which when after birth-struggles for some two thousand years the novel at last got itself born letter-writing was pressed into its service.
Now, therefore, having made this distinction, we may observe, that the first class of miracles was occasional and polemic: it was meant to meet a special hostility incident to the birth-struggles of a new religion, and a religion which, for the very reason that it was true, stood opposed to the spirit of the world; of a religion which, in its first stage, had to fight against a civil power in absolute possession of the civilized earth, and backed by seventy legions.
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