Pioneers have been at work, such as Dr.Kuenen, but not perhaps quite without a bias: let the same enquiry be taken up so widely as that the effects of bias may be eliminated; and instead of at once accepting the first crude results, let us wait until they are matured by time.

This would be really fruitful and productive, and a positive addition to knowledge; but reasoning such as that in 'Supernatural Religion' is vitiated at the outset, because it starts with the assumption that we know perfectly well the meaning of a term of which our actual conception is vague and indeterminate in the extreme--Divine Revelation.

[Endnote 10:1] With these reservations as to the main drift and bearing of the argument, we may however meet the author of 'Supernatural Religion' on his own ground.

It is a part of the question--though a more subordinate part apparently than he seems to suppose--to decide whether miracles did or did not really happen.

Even of this part too it is but quite a minor subdivision that is included in the two volumes of his work that have hitherto appeared.