by Edwin Abbott
Mrs. Humphry Ward, in her account of Dr. Abbott's "Philomythus," predicts the coming of a time when it will be a mark of irreligion to believe in miracles. "When the revolt against miracle has passed more fully than at present from the intellectual to the religious stage; when it is felt to rest upon a new conception of God, the world and life, a new faith, held not less tenaciously, and with a no less passionate humility than the old; when a visibly large number of persons, living the practical life of faith, and claiming the Christian name, have come to feel for themselves and to teach their children to feel that belief in miraculous births or possessed swine or bodily resurrection is, in its essence, a religious offense; then the decay of miraculous belief will have entered upon a new and much more rapid stage than that we see it in at present. Of that time, indeed, there are signs all about us." -- Review of Reviews and World's Work , Volume 3
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