The negation of miracle--the idea that everything in the world happens by laws in which the personal intervention of superior beings has no share--was universally admitted in the great schools of all the countries which had accepted Grecian science.
Perhaps even Babylon and Persia were not strangers to it.

Jesus knew nothing of this progress.

Although born at a time when the principle of positive science was already proclaimed, he lived entirely in the supernatural.

Never, perhaps, had the Jews been more possessed with the thirst for the marvellous.

Philo, who lived in a great intellectual centre, and who had received a very complete education, possessed only a chimerical and inferior knowledge of science.
Jesus, on this point, differed in no respect from his companions.