The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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