Excerpt from The Spirit on the Waters: The Evolution of the Divine From the Human This much, however, may be said here, that the miracles are rejected, not as being essentially impossible, but because, after a study of such as are recorded in the Bible, the weakness of the positive evidence, and the strength of the negative evidence, and in many cases the ease with which they can be explained without resort to miraculous causes, forced me to the conclusion that they are as historically false as the spiritual claims of the Bible are true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.