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MiraclesA Preliminary StudyC. S. LewisTo Cecil and Daphne HarwoodAmong the hills a meteoriteLies huge; and moss has overgrown,And wind and rain with touches lightMade soft, the contours of the easily can Earth digestA cinder of sidereal fire,And make her translunary guestThe native of an English is it strange these wanderersFind in her lap their fitting place,For every particle that s hersCame at the first from outer that is Earth has once been sky;Down from the sun of old she came,Or from some star that travelled byToo close to his entangling , if belated drops yet fallFrom heaven, on these her plastic powerStill works as once it worked on allThe glad rush of the golden Reprinted by permission of Time andTideContentsEpigraph1 The Scope of This Book2 The Naturalist and the Supernaturalist3 The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism4 Nature and Supernature5 A Further Difficulty in Naturalism6 Answers to Misgivings7 A

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

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