 | Hargrave Jennings - 1870 - 396 pagina’s
...has established the laws of nature. The proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." So says Hume. But experience has nothing to do with a miracle, because it is a sense not comprised... | |
 | 1870 - 482 pagina’s
...Hume, has established the laws of nature, the proof against a miyacle from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. That* may readily be admitted, and yet it is no argument at all against the truth of a miracle. Facts... | |
 | 1872 - 592 pagina’s
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die ; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in... | |
 | John Hunt - 1873 - 494 pagina’s
...violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any argument from experience can posssbly be. The Indian prince rightly required strong testimony to believe in ice, but no testimony... | |
 | George Hay (bp. of Daulis.) - 1873 - 388 pagina’s
...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 ; and if so, it is an undeniable consequence that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - 550 pagina’s
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 322 pagina’s
...violation of the laws of Nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." * Further on, he declares " that a miracle supported by any human testimony is more properly a subject... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 316 pagina’s
...violation of the laws of Nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." 1 Further on, he declares " that a miracle supported by any human testimony is more properly a subject... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - 256 pagina’s
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in... | |
 | John Thomson (Minister of Free St. George's, Paisley.) - 1876 - 250 pagina’s
...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" (Essays, vol. ii., sect. 10). To the same effect Strauss says, "We summarily reject all miracles, prophecies,... | |
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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. 
