The opposite possibility must be thought out and lived through if the Yea is to possess full energy and genuineness.

Thus doubt becomes a necessary, if also an uncomfortable, companion of religion; it is indispensable for the conservation of the full freshness and originality of religion--for the freeing of religion from conventional forms and phrases." Eucken's views on _immortality_ have already been dealt with.

He does not accept the Christian conception of it, for he seems to limit the possibility to those in whom spiritual personalities have been developed, and he evidently does not believe that the "natural individuality with all its egoism and limitations" is going to persist.
In discussing the question of _miracle_, Eucken weighs the fact that a conviction of the possibility of miracle has been held by millions in various religions, and particularly in Christianity.

He considers that the question of miracle is of more importance in the Christian religion than in any other, one miracle--the Resurrection--having been taken right into the heart of Christian doctrine.

He finds, however, that the miracle is entirely inconsistent with an exact scientific conception of nature, and means "an overthrow of the total order of nature as this has been set forth through the fundamental work of modern investigation." He does not consider such a position can be held without overwhelming evidence, and does not feel the traditional fact to have this degree of certainty, or to be inexplicable in another way.