 | Henry Taylor - 1841 - Страниц: 28
...unalterable experience has established the laws [of nature], the proof against the existence of ice, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as...from experience can possibly be imagined :"* and, " as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is a direct and full proof from the nature of... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - Страниц: 728
...attested be 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...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 644
...unalterable experience has established (the uniformity of ) these laws, (throughout the course of nature,) the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, (that a miracle is out of the course of nature,) is as entire, as any argument from experience can... | |
 | 1858 - Страниц: 906
...of most skeptics on this subject. David Hume, the distinguished historian and philosopher, says : " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." 4 And again he says : " A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 848
...often does in the course of the Essay, weighing evidence against evidence. " A miracle," he tells us, " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." And again : " There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - Страниц: 904
...attested be 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...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | 1848 - Страниц: 526
...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,...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience that can possibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable consequence that it cannot be surmounted... | |
 | M. A - 1848 - Страниц: 878
...attested be 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...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | William Paley - 1848 - Страниц: 462
...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...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. " Upon the whole we may conclude," the writer finally observes, " that the Christian religion was not... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - Страниц: 654
...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,... | |
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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. 
