 | Mark Hopkins - 1863 - 372 Seiten
...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, is as entire... | |
 | 1863 - 534 Seiten
...in their possibility, is exactly the same as when the argument was stated by Hume, as follows:— ' 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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 Seiten
...less reputed than Mr. Hume, wrote a book to convince the world chiefly on this point. He says : '•' 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... | |
 | James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - 1863 - 904 Seiten
...reasoning on the subject no substantial addition has been made by the labours of subsequent writers : " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof of a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1863 - 732 Seiten
...the witnesses of miracles were not the spectators of them only: the prime witnesses * " A miracle la 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... | |
 | John Brown Paton - 1864 - 198 Seiten
...against miracles. Hume paraded it as invincible ; it is now discarded as worthless. Hume affirms, " 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... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 Seiten
...definition of the word miracle, and an unwarrantable abuse of the word experience. " A miracle," he says, " 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 nature of the fact is as entire as... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - 252 Seiten
...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, is as entire... | |
 | 1867 - 824 Seiten
...often does in the course of the Essay, weighing evidence against evidence. " A miracle," he tells us, " 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 468 Seiten
...entirely laid out of the question. Mr, Hume also places the matter expressly on that ground. He says : " 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... | |
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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. 
