 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1860 - 812 pages
...Infidels, David Hume, has assumed this comprehensive position : " A miracle," he says, " is the 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... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 710 pages
...established course of nature, is taken by men to be divine."8 "A miracle," says Mr. Hume,* " 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 complete... | |
 | 1861 - 838 pages
...paraded it as invincible ; it is now discarded as worthless. Hume affirms — "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 miracle, is as entire as any... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - 1862 - 354 pages
...is, in truth, just the old one of Hume. This Deistical writer says * :— " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience hath established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | William Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) - 1862 - 558 pages
...substantial addition from the labours of subsequent writers on the same side: " 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... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 pages
...fnch testimony can be had, therefore miracles arc not capable of proof. " 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 is as entire as any argument from experience... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 pages
...wrote a book to convince the world chiefly on this point. He says : '•' 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... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1863 - 372 pages
...still with a diminution of its 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 these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
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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. 
