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Orthodoxy

CHAPTER IX
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It is we Christians who accept all actual evidence--it is you rationalists who refuse actual evidence, being constrained to do so by your creed.

But I am not constrained by any creed in the matter, and looking impartially into certain miracles of mediaeval and modern times, I have come to the conclusion that they occurred.

All argument against these plain facts is always argument in a circle.

If I say, "Mediaeval documents attest certain miracles as much as they attest certain battles," they answer, "But mediaevals were superstitious"; if I want to know in what they were superstitious, the only ultimate answer is that they believed in the miracles.

If I say "a peasant saw a ghost," I am told, "But peasants are so credulous." If I ask, "Why credulous ?" the only answer is--that they see ghosts.


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