p. 23. A.
If there were reason for it, it were no miracle.
The announcement of the first comet, that had ever been observed, might excite doubt in the mind of an astronomer, to whom, from the place where he lived, it had not been visible. But his reason could have been no objection to it. Had God pleased, all women might have conceived,
as many of the
polypi
and
planariæ
do. Not on any such ground do I suspend myself on this as an article of faith; but because I doubt the evidence.
Ib.