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62 young man who was possessed, at Athens, through whom the devil utters cries of fear and rage, and who cannot face the look of Apollonius, reminds the attentive reader of the Gospel narrative of the demoniac of Gadara. Neither is cured until some outward visible circumstance has taken place which gives the people reason to believe that the devil has really gone out. In the one case the herd of swine rush down into the lake; in the other, a statue falls, overthrown by the violence of the evil spirit as he departed out of the young man. Again, another case of possession is singularly like the one of the epileptic child in the three first gospels. In Rome, Apollonius restores a young girl to life under circumstances which immediately remind us of the return to life of the daughter of Jairus. It may be remarked even still further, that the two stories are so recorded that a careful critic may ask himself with respect to each whether the young girl who was brought to life again had really been dead at all. The lame, the halt, and the blind come in crowds to be healed by the laying