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be materially more decisive. Its ideal and unrealizable perfection could only bring some such conclusion as that for ordinary finite minds there can never be any sufficient proof of them. The most negative conclusion that qualitative induction could justify, if there were nothing to allege in favor of miraculous phenomena, is that they are among the most unlikely of all possible events. The crude induction is the strongest of the three reasons against miracles; and to put that against any religious reason in their favor, supposing religion to have any weight whatever for reason, is most illogical. Some persons, however, being indisposed for some reason to announce themselves