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C. S. Lewis
Miracles
A Preliminary Study
William Collins
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First published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1947
Copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte Ltd 1947
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To
Cecil and Daphne Harwood
Among the hills a meteorite
Lies huge; and moss has overgrown,
And wind and rain with touches light
Made soft, the contours of the stone.
Thus easily can Earth digest
A cinder of sidereal fire,
And make her translunary guest
The native of an English shire.
Nor is it strange these wanderers
Find in her lap their fitting place,
For every particle that’s hers
Came at the first from outer space.
All that is Earth has once been sky;
Down from the sun of old she came,
Or from some star that travelled by
Too close to his entangling flame.
Hence, if belated drops yet fall
From heaven, on these her plastic power
Still works as once it worked on all
The glad rush of the golden shower.
C.S.L.
Reprinted by permission of Time and Tide
Contents
1 The Scope of this Book
2 The Naturalist and the Supernaturalist
3 The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism
4 Nature and Supernature
5 A Further Difficulty in Naturalism
6 Answers to Misgivings
7 A Chapter of Red Herrings
8 Miracles and the Laws of Nature
9 A Chapter not Strictly Necessary
10 ‘Horrid Red Things’
11 Christianity and ‘Religion’
12 The Propriety of Miracles
13 On Probability
14 The Grand Miracle
15 Miracles of the Old Creation
16 Miracles of the New Creation
17 Epilogue
Appendix A: On the Words ‘spirit’ and ‘spiritual’
Appendix B: On ‘special Providences’
About the Author
Other Books by C. S. Lewis
Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions.
ARISTOTLE, Metaphysics,
