A clearer conception of miracle approached.--Works of Jesus
once reputed miraculous not so reputed now, since not now
transcending as once the existing range of knowledge and
power.--This transfer of the miraculous to the natural
likely to continue.--No hard and fast line between the
miraculous and the non-miraculous.--Miracle a provisional
word, its application narrowing in the enlarging mastery of
the secrets of Nature and of life. 75
V
Biblical miracles the effluence of extraordinary lives.--Life
the world's magician and miracle-worker; its miracles now
termed _prodigies_.--Miracle the natural product of an
extraordinary endowment of life.--Life the ultimate
reality.--What any man can achieve is conditioned by the
psychical quality of his life.--Nothing more natural, more
supernatural, than life.--The derived life of the world
filial to the self-existent life of God; "begotten, not
made."--Miracle as the product of life, the work of God. 85