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atheists, urge that even if God really is, the evidence is that He acts only through Law; and neither St. Augustine nor Bishop Butler were able to discover any objection to that position. But notwithstanding their position, I must say that it is most inconsistent for a positivist or agnostic, who maintains that no evidence is sufficient to justify any assertion whatever concerning an infinite mind, to hold on any evidence, that it is certain, or even decidedly probable that God, if he exists, has bound himself down with wooden rigidity to any formula of their discovery or devising. As for the New Testament miracles, I admit that, unless one is first satisfied that