He considers that the explanation of the miracle probably lies in the psychic state of the witnesses.
Eucken shows in general extreme reluctance to make a historical event a foundation of belief, and this no doubt accounts to some extent for his attitude with regard to miracles.

He points out that "the founders of religion have themselves protested against a craving after sensuous signs," and that this protest "is no other than the sign of spiritual power and of a Divine message and greatness." He considers that the belief in, and craving for, sensuous miracle is an outcome of a "mid-level of religion," where belief is waning and spirituality declining.

While, thus, he does not believe in sensuous miracle, he acknowledges and lays the greatest stress on one miracle--the presence of the Spiritual Life in man.

It is, indeed, this miracle that renders others unnecessary.
In discussing the doctrine of the _Incarnation_, Eucken attempts to get at the inner meaning--the truth which the doctrine endeavours to express, and he finds this to consist in the fact of the ultimate union of the human and Divine, and this truth is one that we dare not renounce.

He criticises the attempt that is made in Christianity to show that such union only obtained once in the course of history.