 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 424 страници
...is, does not himself fail in the very wisdom he exacts. He says, in the same chapter — " A miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature ; and, as a firm...unalterable experience has established these laws, * " Hume's Essays and Treatises on Various Subjects," 2nd ed., London, 1784, vol. ii. p. 122. t " Hume's... | |
 | 1861 - 838 страници
...Miracles. Home 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...these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very miracle, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." (Hume's " Essays,"... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1861 - 786 страници
...which it is expressed, and we think that it has been more than once refuted. " A miracle," says Hume, " 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." Now what... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1861 - 296 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 and unalterable experienee has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact,... | |
 | William Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) - 1862 - 558 страници
...received no substantial addition from the labours of subsequent writers on the same side: " 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."* The argument,... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 страници
...establish." No fnch testimony can be had, therefore miracles arc not capable of proof. " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm...established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be." We have here only tor the word "miracle"... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - 1862 - 354 страници
...this objection is, in truth, just the old one of Hume. This Deistical writer says * :— " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience hath established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1863 - 372 страници
...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...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." Again,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 страници
...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...these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as an argument from experience can possibly be imagined." A firm and... | |
 | 1863 - 534 страници
...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...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.' As we... | |
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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. 
