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It was a moment when close human contact came very graciously to the girl. "Afraid? No, he was too gentle, too sad there was absolutely nothing to be afraid of. I didn't stop to think of the supernaturalness of the vision I was much too interested. If it was a ghost, I shall never be afraid of ghosts again." Michael shivered. Meg looked at him.
He says, on page 64: "The miracles of revelation are, in spite of all objective supernaturalness, derived from their central origin, something really conformable to law: partly in relation to the higher order of things to which they belong and which is also a world, a nature in its kind, and acts upon the lower in its way; partly in reference to the similarity to common nature which they retain in any way; partly on account of their teleological perfection; and they must not only be expected as the homogeneous phenomenon from the inner miracle of redemption, from the standpoint of perfect Christian faith, but also by virtue of the union between spirit and nature, be looked upon as the natural in its kind."
"Christ," he said; "if He existed, which some people, as you know, doubt, was a very beautiful character; there have been others. But to ask us to believe in His supernaturalness or divinity at this time of day is to ask us to walk through the world blindfold. And that's what you do, don't you?" Again Pierson looked at his daughter's face.
The distinction between the supernaturalness of the appeal and the naturalness of the response would gradually tend to efface itself: for "what is universal is natural," and the voice which every man was able to recognise would come at last to be regarded as a voice from within oneself.
For to the religious view of the world which traces equally the explicable as well as the inexplicable back to God, which even derives the natural from the supernatural causality of God neither the occasional inexplicability nor the supposed supernaturalness of an event can be that which makes the event a miracle.
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