It is very simple but important to see that miracles do not necessarily imply the setting aside laws. Man produces effects previously unknown by him—change them he cannot. The only difference is that man uses the laws themselves as force to produce the effect; 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. Laws which bind nature, I admit; laws which bind God, I do not.