By all these we are greatly influenced.
They all make their mark upon the man." "The faculties which take cognizance of the inner world have been awakened in only a few of the human race, and these, to distinguish them, have been called prophets, miracle-workers, Providential men, seers, and poets.

Now, their privilege is that of all men in a greater or less degree, just as is the case with regard to the faculties which relate to the outward world.

For when men in general were as ignorant about the exterior world as they now are about the interior, the men of science, the astronomers, the mathematicians, the founders of the arts, were held to be miraculous, gods, and they were deified.

What any one man (and this is a most comfortable and cheering thought) has been or has done, all men may in a measure be or do, for each is a type, a specimen of the whole human race.

If it is said in reply, 'These miracles or great acts, which you hold as actual, are mere superstitious dreams,' I care not.