The "infidel" will probably be unable
to refrain from insulting the memory of the ecstatic
saint by the remark, that Tertullian's known views
about the corporeality of the soul may have had
something to do with the remarkable perceptive powers
of the Montanist medium, in whose revelations of the
spiritual world he took such profound interest.
[94] See the New York _World_ for Sunday, 21st October,
1888; and the _Report of the Seybert Commission_,
Philadelphia, 1887.
[95] Dr. Newman's observation that the miraculous
multiplication of the pieces of the true cross (with
which "the whole world is filled," according to Cyril
of Jerusalem; and of which some say there are enough
extant to build a man-of-war) is no more wonderful
than that of the loaves and fishes, is one that I do
not see my way to contradict. See _Essay on Miracles_.
2d ed. p. 163.
[96] _An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine_,
by J.H. Newman, D.D., pp. 7 and 8. (1878.)
[97] Dr. Newman faces this question with his customary
ability. "Now, I own, I am not at all solicitous to
deny that this doctrine of an apostate Angel and his
hosts was gained from Babylon: it might still be
Divine nevertheless.
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