 | George John Romanes - 1874 - 286 pages
...upon the witnesses, and has been best formulated by Hume8, who defines a miracle as " a transgression of a Law of Nature by a particular volition of the Deity." The other opinion has been concisely formulated thus : — " A miracle is the superseding of a lower rule... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1874 - 288 pages
...upon the witnesses, and has been best formulated by Hume8, who defines a miracle as " a transgression of a Law of Nature by a particular volition of the Deity." The other opinion has been concisely formulated thus : — " A miracle is the superseding of a lower rule... | |
 | David Hume - 1874 - 604 pages
...contradiction in terms. An event is not regarded as miraculous unless it is regarded as a ' transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity or by the interposition of some invisible agent' (Ibid, note x.); but it could not transgress a law... | |
 | David Hume - 1874 - 604 pages
...that the events should have happened but that they should have been miraculous, ie ' transgressions of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity.' for the charm which the prospect of overcoming the separation between reason and instinct exercises... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - 256 pages
...is, " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature." The second is, " A miracle is a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." Now both these definitions are bad or imperfect.... | |
 | 1903 - 554 pages
...affirm that no theologian of repute would in these days accept Hume's definition of a miracle as ' a violation of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity.' The reason is simply that a miracle so defined ' is relative,' as Butler has it, ' to a course of nature,'... | |
 | 1880 - 470 pages
...involved in a great mist. In a note to his celebrated essay, Hume defines a miracle as a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent. Paley, who wrote in answer to Hume just after his... | |
 | George Derwent Thomson - 1880 - 222 pages
...more beyond our comprehension." But what is miracle ? Hume himself defines it as " a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." But I am afraid this definition is not accurate,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1881 - 782 pages
...says that " a miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature," and again, " A miracle is a transgression of a law of Nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." Mr. Wallace shows that these definitions are both... | |
 | 1881 - 836 pages
...says that " a miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature," and again, "A miracle is a transgression of a law of Nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." Mr. Wallace shows that these definitions are both... | |
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A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent. 
