| Mark Hopkins - 1846 - 530 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| Mark Hopkins - 1846 - 396 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| John David Macbride - 1848 - 1080 páginas
...Miracle, however attested, can ever be rendered credible even in the lowest degree. " A Miracle," says he, "is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm...complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imaghed ; and if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever,... | |
| 1848 - 526 páginas
...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,...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience that can possibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable... | |
| M. A - 1848 - 878 páginas
...probability ; "A miracle," says the subtle philosopher, "is a violation of the laws of nature, and as firm and unalterable experience has established these...against a miracle from the very nature of the fact is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." "It accords," says he, "with our... | |
| William Paley - 1848 - 462 páginas
...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 of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. " Upon the whole we may conclude,"... | |
| Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - 654 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined."" But the fallacy lies in the premiss.... | |
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