Note 169 — Chapter II · SUPPOSED PRESUMPTION AGAINST A REVELATION CONSIDERED AS MIRACULOUS.
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[For instance, a mass of ice or snow, may imperceptibly accumulate for an age, and then suddenly fall and overwhelm a village. Or a planet, or comet, may have been gradually nearing our earth for a million of years, without producing, as yet, any effect on our orbit; but in process of time, its proximity may work great changes in our condition.]