The age of miracles is popularly supposed to have passed long ago, yet there are things happening every day which are miraculous in their nature in the sense at least that they can not be explained by any natural law with which we are acquainted. The case of the Pennsylvania man noted some time ago in the dispatches, whose brain was eaten away leaving only the outside membraneous covering, yet who lived and apparently enjoyed all of his senses to the last is paralleled by the case of Scanlan, the actor, whose brain in the opinion of the doctors is all gone, yet who lives and promises to live for some time. Before these cases were reported there was not a physician who valued his reputation who would not have said that it was an impossibility for a human being to live after his brains had been destroyed.
In view of these well attested cases in which natural laws are set at naught and the supposedly impossible shown to be possible, it is risky work to dogmatize or to set boundaries between the real and the unreal.— The Evening Press, Grand Rapids, Mich.
