On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism: Three EssaysJ. Burns, 1875 - 236 σελίδες |
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... convinced of the reality of such facts after the most searching personal investigation . Yet the assumption that such an amount and quality of independ- ent converging evidence can be all false , must be proved , if the argument is to ...
... convinced of the reality of such facts after the most searching personal investigation . Yet the assumption that such an amount and quality of independ- ent converging evidence can be all false , must be proved , if the argument is to ...
Σελίδα 18
... convince none of his fellow scientific men that they were works of art , or worthy of the slightest attention . At length , how- ever , in 1853 , he began to make converts . In 1859-60 , some of our own most eminent geologists visited ...
... convince none of his fellow scientific men that they were works of art , or worthy of the slightest attention . At length , how- ever , in 1853 , he began to make converts . In 1859-60 , some of our own most eminent geologists visited ...
Σελίδα 26
... convinced of their reality after the closest scrutiny - suffered the martyrdom of imprisonment in the Bastile for insisting upon making them public . And in our own day we have , at the lowest estimate , many millions of believers in ...
... convinced of their reality after the closest scrutiny - suffered the martyrdom of imprisonment in the Bastile for insisting upon making them public . And in our own day we have , at the lowest estimate , many millions of believers in ...
Σελίδα 31
... convince us of the higher ( Classes II . and III . , defined as " those which are in direct contrariety to our existing knowledge , " & c ) . As he must refer to the above passage , and that eight lines further on , my readers will have ...
... convince us of the higher ( Classes II . and III . , defined as " those which are in direct contrariety to our existing knowledge , " & c ) . As he must refer to the above passage , and that eight lines further on , my readers will have ...
Σελίδα 33
... convinced of the truth and reality of most of these phenomena . I presume it will be admitted that they are honest nen . If , then , these facts , which many of them declare they have repeatedly witnessed , never took place , I must ...
... convinced of the truth and reality of most of these phenomena . I presume it will be admitted that they are honest nen . If , then , these facts , which many of them declare they have repeatedly witnessed , never took place , I must ...
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Σελίδα 8 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.
Σελίδα 12 - For first, there is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good-sense, education, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected...
Σελίδα 12 - There surely never was a greater number of miracles ascribed to one person, than those, which were lately said to have been wrought in France upon the tomb of Abb£ Paris, the famous Jansenist, with whose sanctity the people were so long deluded. The curing of the sick, giving hearing to the deaf, and sight to the blind, were every where talked of as the usual effects of that holy sepulchre.
Σελίδα 218 - But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If anybody would endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do.
Σελίδα 12 - ... attesting facts performed in such a public manner and in so celebrated a part of the world as to render the detection unavoidable— all which circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance in the testimony of men.
Σελίδα 54 - Before we proceed to consider any question involving physical principles, we should set out with clear ideas of the naturally possible and impossible.
Σελίδα 9 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Σελίδα 10 - ... that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of these laws, or in other words, a miracle to prevent them? Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it ever happen in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man, seemingly in good health, should die on a sudden: because such a kind of death, though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to lite; because that...
Σελίδα 12 - But what is more extraordinary; many of the miracles were immediately proved upon the spot, before judges of unquestioned integrity, attested by witnesses of credit and distinction, in a learned age, and on the most eminent theatre that is now in the world.
Σελίδα 172 - I have known a mahogany chair thrown on its side and moved swiftly back and forth on the floor, no one touching it, through a room where there were at least a dozen people sitting, yet no one was touched, and it was repeatedly stopped within a few inches of me, when it was coming with a violence which, if not arrested, must have broken my legs.