tongues of some Emirs, adds, 'It is a curious fact, however, that the tongues grow again sufficiently for the purposes of speech.' "2. Sir John Malcolm, in his 'Sketches of Persia,' speaking of Zâb, Khan of Khisht, who was condemned to lose his tongue, 'This mandate,' he says, 'was imperfectly executed, and the loss of half this member deprived him of speech. Being afterwards persuaded that its being cut close to the root would enable him to speak so as to be understood, he submitted to the operation; and the effect has been that his voice, though indistinct and thick, is yet intelligible to persons accustomed to converse with him. I am not an anatomist, and I cannot therefore give a reason why a man, who could not articulate with half a tongue, should speak when he had none at all; but the facts are as stated.' 3. And Sir John McNeil says, 'In answer to your inquiries about the powers of speech retained by persons who have had their tongues cut out, I can state from personal observation that several persons whom I knew in Persia, who had been subjected to that punishment, spoke so intelligibly as to be able to transact important business. The conviction in Persia is universal, that the power of speech is destroyed by merely cutting off the tip of the tongue; and is to a useful extent restored by cutting off another portion as far back as a perpendicular section can be made of the portion that is free from attachment at the lower surface. I never had to meet with a person who had suffered this punishment, who could not speak so as to be quite intelligible to his familiar associates.' So far these writers. "I should not, however, be honest, if I professed to be simply converted by their testimony, to the belief that there was nothing miraculous in the case of the African confessors. It is quite as fair to be sceptical on one side of the question as on the other; and if Gibbon is considered worthy of praise for his stubborn incredulity' in receiving the evidence for the miracle, I do not see why I am to be blamed, if I wish to be quite sure of the full appositeness of the recent evidence which is brought to its disadvantage. Questions of fact cannot be disproved by analogies or presumptions; the inquiry must be made into the particular case in all its parts, as it comes before us. Meanwhile, I fully allow that the points of evidence brought in disparagement of the miracle are primâ facie of such cogency, that, till they are proved to be irrelevant, Catholics are prevented from appealing to it for controversial purposes." 395 INDEX Abbé Paris, cures at the tomb of, 33, 38, 44, 45, 59, 61, 64, 66, 90. of speech, 374. African Confessors, miracle of the, 369; its completeness, 381; number on Alexander Pseudomantis, 81. Alexander the coppersmith, 333. Alypius, 335. Ambrose, St., on the discovery of the two martyrs' bodies, 137; his Ammianus, his account of Julian's attempt to rebuild the Temple, 337. Angel-worship, 361. Antonine Column at Rome, 249. Antony, St., 122; his combats with evil spirits, 158. Apocryphal Accounts of Christ, 28. Apollonius, miracles attributed to, 27, 36, 57, 62, 90, 159. Arius, sudden death of, 134, 327. Arnobius, his challenge to the heathen as to miracles, 66. Athanasius, St., Life of St. Antony, 122. Augustine, St., his De Civitate Dei, 129; passage against the Donatists, 142; keenness of his intellect, 238. Aurea Legenda of Jacob de Voragine, 236. Austin, 84. Balaam's ass, 30. Barrington, Lord, on the duration of the gift of miracles, 214. Basil, St., miraculously informed of the death of the Emperor Julian, 57; on St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, 118. Bede's Ecclesiastical History, 236. Bentham, Jeremy, Preuves Judiciaires, 21, 45, 56, 58, 83. Berkeley (Bishop) his Alciphron, 10. Bernard, St., quoted, 208; his miracles, 219. Bethesda, 34. Blomfield, Bishop, Sermons, 135; quoted, 221. Bryant, 25. Butler, Alban, Lives of the Saints, 257. Calvin, on Saint Helena, 289. Campbell on Miracles, 5, 50. Chinese painters, their method of drawing, 82. Chrysostom, St., on Miracles, 136. Clarke, Dr., on the site of the Holy Sepulchre, 302. Claudius Apollinaris, his Apology for Christianity lost, 241. Clement, St., of Alexandria, quoted, 139. Cock-lane ghost, 61. Constantine's Luminous Cross, 134, 271; his letter to Macarius, 291. Cyprian, divine admonition to, 37; his description of the demoniacs, 132; account of a lapsed communicant, 134. Cyril, St., of Jerusalem, on the discovery of the Cross, 293. Davison's Discourses on Prophecy, quoted, 343. Demetrian, 132. Dio Cassius, on the miracle of the Thundering Legion, 248. Domitian, assassination of, 57. Donatus, 143. Douglas, Bishop, his Criterion, 34, 42, 60, 61, 64, 106, 177. Ecclesiastical Miracles, 97. Eleazar, charm wrought by, 27. Elijah's sacrifice, 31, 32; miracles, 88, 91, 332. Elisha's miracles, 81, 91, 161, 163, 167, 232. Elymas, 333. Empedocles, 27. Essenes, the, 361. Eusebius, 123, 134, 241; his account of Narcissus, 256; of Constantine's Eve's temptation by the serpent, 30. Fabricius, quoted, 279. Farmer on Miracles, 12, 26, 33, 50, 55. Fleetwood on Miracles, 53. Fleury's Ecclesiastical History, 99. Francis, St., tears of, 256. Gelasius, Pope, his warning to the faithful against apocryphal works, 235. Gervasius, St., discovery of the relics of, 134; miracles wrought by them, 348. fessors, 87; on the first converts, 89; on the miracles of Moses and |