And why then should not everything become a miracle?
For, after all, whether the action comes from nature or from some unknown power, medical men are, as a rule, none the less astonished when an illness terminates in a manner which they have not foreseen.

No doubt, too, things are very badly organised here.

Those certificates from doctors whom nobody knows have no real value.

All documents ought to be stringently inquired into.

But even admitting any absolute scientific strictness, you must be very simple, my dear child, if you imagine that a positive conviction would be arrived at, absolute for one and all.