 | Mark Hopkins - 1846 - 530 страници
...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 as a firm...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. And if so,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1846 - 396 страници
...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 as a firm...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. And if so,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 904 страници
...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 as a firm...these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and,... | |
 | M. A - 1848 - 878 страници
...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...these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if... | |
 | 1848 - 526 страници
...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, as a firm...these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience that can possibly be imagined ; and,... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - 654 страници
...Variable experience amounts only to probability — invariable experience, to certainty. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm...these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, can not be surmounted by any proof whatever from testimony, because this is variable.... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - 450 страници
...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 as a firm...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 страници
...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 nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. (Hume.-)... | |
 | John Kitto - 1852 - 536 страници
...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...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."" But the... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1852 - 356 страници
...consider, what, by his own account, is the strength of the proof from experience : — ' A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; — and, as 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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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. 
