• Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.

    Charles Babbage: Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.
    Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.490, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green