...principle than our experience of the veracity of human testimony. If the fact attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof...nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from cxoerience can possibly be imagined; and if so, it is an undeLECTURE V. niable consequence that it...

...with it before. Aye ! even so. Here is something like it in a well known author of the last century. "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." "The plain consequence is, that no,,...

...philosophic as he 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;...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined."* Here are two propositions : one,...

...philosophic as he 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,...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined."* Here are two propositions : one,...

...philosophic as he 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,...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...

...against the competency of the testimony offered. I understand him. as assuming, substantially, that, as a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, — and as the general uniform operation of those laws has been proven by general experience, the proof against...

...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...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Now what is the proof that there...

...against Miracles. Home paraded it as invincible ; it is now discarded as worthless. Hume affirms — "A miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature ;...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,"...

...principle than our experience of the veracity of human testimony. If the fact attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof...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,...

...any fact which is a violation of the laws of nature, here is a contest of two opposite experiences. The proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be imagined ; and if so, it cannot be surmounted by a proof...