Believe me, miracles are in us, not without us.

Here natural facts occur which men call supernatural.

God would have been strangely unjust had he confined the testimony of his power to certain generations and peoples and denied them to others.

The brazen rod belongs to all.
Neither Moses, nor Jacob, nor Zoroaster, nor Paul, nor Pythagoras, nor Swedenborg, not the humblest Messenger nor the loftiest Prophet of the Most High are greater than you are capable of being.

Only, there come to nations as to men certain periods when Faith is theirs.
"If material sciences be the end and object of human effort, tell me, both of you, would societies,--those great centres where men congregate,--would they perpetually be dispersed?
If civilization were the object of our Species, would intelligence perish?
would it continue purely individual?
The grandeur of all nations that were truly great was based on exceptions; when the exception ceased their power died.