 | 1883 - 836 pages
...narrow conception of the laws of nature. The alternative definition, that 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 " (IV.p. 134, note), is still less defensible. For... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - 1885 - 580 pages
...that the events should have happened but that they should have been miracuha.i, if ' 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... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1885 - 396 pages
...MIRACLES, and the evidence by which they are supported. He defines a miracle to be " a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by an interposition of some invisible agent " (iv. 184). Let us consider the question in its philosophic... | |
 | Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins - 1886 - 508 pages
...in the miraculous, defines a miracle as a ' violation of the laws of nature, or as a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.'" It is to be observed that Prof. Huxley will not... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1888 - 572 pages
...particular instance. Hnme defines the miracle to be " a violation of the laws of nature ; " "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity." Essay on Miracles, Pt. I. This is incorrect. When our Lord raised Lazarus from the dead, he merely... | |
 | Isaac C. Hughes - 1891 - 470 pages
...definition, for he afterwards says that " a miracle may be accurately defined to be a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposal of some visible agent." It requires no great degree of mental perception to see... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pages
...the miraculous, defines a miracle as a " violation Jof the laws of nature," or as " a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, i or by the interposition of some invisible agent." There must, he says,— Hume, with less than his... | |
 | George Lovell Cary - 1900 - 426 pages
...who heard it to come from the world of shades, is called a miraculum. miracle as " a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." More concisely miracle has been defined as " violation... | |
 | Franklin Johnson - 1904 - 188 pages
...their opponents believed. It is Humef who says, "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." This definition has met the steadfast protest of... | |
 | Alfred William Benn - 1906 - 496 pages
...be inexplicable does not necessarily make it a miracle. It must, in Hume's words, be a transgression of a law of nature by ' a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of an invisible agent.' l And from a rationalistic point of view the definition... | |
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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. 
