It is very simple but important to see that miracles do not necessarily imply the setting aside laws. Man produces effects previously unknown by them—change them he cannot. The only difference is that man uses the laws themselves as force to produce the effects; God, the fiat of his will. He may act beyond laws without setting aside any existing one, because he can quicken and create. But the argument that there are laws and God would not set aside his own is perfectly without force