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Jesus was in some peculiar sense a Divine Person, in which case there can be nothing unlikely in his working miracles, the evidence is not sufficient that they were really such events as the writers of the Gospels evidently took them to be. At the same time, as well as I can make out, it is impossible to form any rational philosophy of cosmology without admitting that violations of the true laws of nature, in swarms [of] numberless though excessively minute violations, are happening every second of time. In the years 1891-3, I defended this position in six articles in the Monist under the name of tychism; but only in one of the six did I allude to any other conception of them than that [of] events occurring by absolute chance. I there contended that the laws