 | Thomas Starkie - 1833 - 864 σελίδες
...summary positions on this subject advanced by Air. Hume. He says, in his Essay, vol. 3, sec. 1O, " 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,... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 σελίδες
...attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, 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,... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1835 - 478 σελίδες
...miracle, however attested, can ever be rendered credible even in the lowest degree. A miracle, says he, 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,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 426 σελίδες
...strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. 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,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1836 - 520 σελίδες
...attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, 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,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 402 σελίδες
...strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. 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,... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1836 - 324 σελίδες
...matters of fact. Variable experience amounts only to probability — invariable experience, to certainty. 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 faqt,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - 480 σελίδες
...attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, 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,... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - 266 σελίδες
...prophecies, and ' with the doctrines in confirmation of which miracles were ' wrought.' "* Hume contends that 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,... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1838 - 244 σελίδες
...observation, shall be subject to one of those violations which constitute * Mr. Hume contends, that " a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proofs against a miracle, from the... | |
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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. 
