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{{Style P-No indent|themselves to the necessary conditions, or rather are overpowered by them. It is almost necessary to assume a special working of Providence in all these things; therefore, also, in the so-called stigmatisations. They follow the same law of order and continuity that govern other events, so far as we perceive them, though in the present case much remains veiled in mystery. These phenomena are very wonderful, but they are not ''miracles ''in the popular sense of the word, though they have been unquestionably held as such by pious believers in all times. We cannot, however, argue with those who, in complete ignorance of the subject, think they can annihilate the facts with the terrible name “deception,” and who prove to their own satisfaction, from natural laws which in no way affect the question, the “impossibility” of mystic phenomena, and who prefer the applause of the unjudging crowd to open and earnest investigation.}}