I know my duty well enough without the Bible." The more educated attempt to reason the matter after this fashion: "Miraculous phenomena will never prove the goodness and veracity of God, if we do not know these qualities in him without a miracle."[41] We may remark, in passing, that there are some other attributes of God besides goodness and veracity--holiness and justice for instance--which are proved by miracles.

"Can thunder from the thirty-two azimuths, repeated daily for centuries, make God's laws more godlike to me?
Brother, no.

Perhaps I am grown to be a man now, and do not need the thunder and the terror any longer.

Perhaps I am above being frightened.

Perhaps it is not fear but reverence that shall now lead me! Revelation! Inspirations! And thy own god-created soul, dost thou not call that a revelation ?"[42] It is manifest, however, that if Mr.
Carlyle needs not the Sinai thunder to assure him that the law given on Sinai was from God, there were then, and are now, many who do, and some of his own sect who doubt in spite of it.