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Updated: June 27, 2025
It is the well-known story of the devils who were cast out of a man, and ordered, or permitted, to enter into a herd of swine, to the great loss and damage of the innocent Gerasene, or Gadarene, pig owners.
And what would Parson Trehawke have said to Jesus Christ about the joke he played on the Gadarene swine? There is nothing that irritates a Kelt so much as the least consideration for any animal, and there was not a man in the whole of the Rhos peninsula who did not sympathize with the corpse of William Day.
She dared not talk of him now, with that wild light and hectic flush in her sister's face; it would only make bad worse. But a recollection of her first association of him with the maniac in the Gadarene tombs was quick on the heels of this image, and prompted her to say: "Had no evil spirit power over him, then, as well as his father?"
A wretched pun.... The mass of mankind run much after the fashion of the sheep of Panurge, but there are always a few that Conscience. A few that are like the Gadarene swine. Ah,...were I the precipice, were I the sea in which the pigs might drown! Conscience. And persecuted by the desire to astonish, you are now exhibiting yourself in the most hideous light you can devise.
"Ludicrous" because it betrays such complete ignorance of life all given over to men industrious with muck-rakes: "Gadarene swine," as Carlyle called them, "busily grubbing and grunting in search of pignuts." "Pathetic" for it is boldly ingenuous as youth itself with a touch of youthful conceit and exaggeration.
The Gadarene miracle, for example, is so extremely improbable that the fact of its being reported by three even independent, authorities could not justify belief in it, unless we had the clearest evidence as to their capacity as observers and as interpreters of their observations.
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