VIII

The cardinal point in the present discussion the reality not

of miracles, but of the supernatural.--Fallacy of pointing

to physical events as essential characteristics of

supernatural Revelation.--The character of a revelation

determined not by its circumstances, but by its

contents.--Moral nature supernatural to physical.--Nature a

hierarchy of natures.--Supernatural Religion historically

attested by the moral development it generates.--Transfer

of its distinctive note from moral ideals to physical

marvels a costly error.--Jesus' miracles _a_ revelation, of

a type common with others before and after.--The unique

Revelation of Jesus was in the higher realm of divine ideas

and ideals.--These, while unrealized in human life, still

exhibit the fact of a supernatural Revelation.--The

distinction of natural and supernatural belongs to the

period of moral progress up to the spiritual maturity of

man in the image of God.--The divine possibilities of

humanity, imaged in Jesus, revealed as our inheritance and

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