 | Mark Hopkins - 1846 - Страниц: 396
...force in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...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... | |
 | 1848 - Страниц: 526
...force in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | M. A - 1848 - Страниц: 878
...opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...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... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - Страниц: 654
...probability — invariable experience, to certainty. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...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,... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1850 - Страниц: 406
...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...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. (Hume.-) 8. My friend tells me that he suffers much from lumbago. But that complaint is completely... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1852 - Страниц: 356
...substance of it has been given thus: — "'A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature : — and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; ' — for, as there is no such uniform experience of the truth of human testimony, as there is of... | |
 | John Kitto - 1852 - Страниц: 536
...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...argument from experience can possibly be imagined."" But the fallacy lies in the premiss. A violation of the laws of nature is tantamount to a resistance... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - Страниц: 692
...violation of the law of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established that law, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." ': Nothing is a miracle that happens in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man seemingly... | |
 | sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - Страниц: 282
...a violation of the laws of nature ; and as 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." In due syllogistic form, the argument would stand thus : Whatever is opposed to a firm and unalterable... | |
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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. 
