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Martyrologia; Or, Records of Religious Persecution, a New and Comprehensive Book of Martyrs Compiled Partly From the Acts and Monuments of J. Foxe and ... [And W.h. Rule] Or, Records of Religious
John Sundins Stamp
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-01-10.
ISBN 9781150680779
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1849. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... DOUBTS RESPECTING ITS MIRACULOUS CHARACTER. 175 vision of this nature could be expected by Constantine. No new appearances, other than those already vouchsafed, could be anticipated; and many other reasons also could be adduced to lead us to infer, that the manifestation to Constantine was not miraculous. What then is likely to have been the origin of the Labarum? It was probably an imagination, or a spectral illusion, * similar to that which Colonel Gardinerf is reported to have beheld, when that religious * "Although It is not probable that we shall ever be able to understand the actual manner in which a person of sound mind beholds spectral apparitions in the broad light of day, yet we may arrive at such a degree of knowledge on the subject, as to satisfy rational curiosity, and to strip the phenomena of every attribute of the marvellous. Even the vision of natural objects presents to us insurmountable difficulties, if we seek to understand the precise part which the mind performs in perceiving them ; but the philosopher considers that he has given a satisfactory explanation of vision, when he demonstrates, that distinct pictures of external objects are painted on the retina, and that this membrane communicates with the brain by means of nerves of the same substance aa itself, and of which it is merely an expansion. Here we reach the gulf which human intelligence cannot pass; and if the presumptuous mind of man shall dare to extend its speculations further, it will do it only to evince its incapacity and mortify its pride. In his admirable work on this subject, Dr. Hibbert has shown, that spectral apparitions are nothing more than ideas, or the recollected images of the mind, which, in certain states of bodily indisposition, have been rendered more vivid than
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