| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 904 σελίδες
...attested be miraculous, here arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable... | |
| 1848 - 526 σελίδες
...strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of force in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and,...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience that can possibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable consequence that it cannot be surmounted... | |
| M. A - 1848 - 878 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...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
| William Paley - 1848 - 462 σελίδες
...violation of the laws of nature. But since a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. " Upon the whole we may conclude," the writer finally observes, " that the Christian religion was not... | |
| Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - 654 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...against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, can not be surmounted by any proof whatever from testimony, because this is variable. There is, therefore,... | |
| Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - 450 σελίδες
...broken, and that a miracle is an impossibility." Now this is only what Mr. Hume said long ago — " a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and...unalterable experience has established these laws," &c. But all this talk about the unbroken chain of endless causation, and the invariableness of the... | |
| Henry Aldrich - 1850 - 406 σελίδες
...reminded that it is always an unlucky day. 6. Where was the Protestant religion before Luther ? 7. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature: and, as firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very... | |
| John Kitto - 1852 - 536 σελίδες
...the truth. Perhaps if it were the whole truth, it would justify what he proceeds to remark, that " as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined."" But the fallacy lies in the premiss. A violation of the laws of nature is tantamount to a resistance... | |
| William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 σελίδες
...violation of the law of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established that law, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." ': Nothing is a miracle that happens in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man seemingly... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1852 - 356 σελίδες
...— let us consider, what, by his own account, is the strength of the proof from experience : — ' A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; —...a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument... | |
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