 | 1862 - 1156 pàgines
...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 can possibly be." We have here only tor the word "miracle" to substitute *' spirit-manifestation," and tlic argument... | |
 | William Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) - 1862 - 552 pàgines
...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."* The argument, as thus stated, was just as stronger just as weak at the day when it was written as at... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1863 - 372 pàgines
...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." Again, Hume says, " It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the... | |
 | James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - 1863 - 904 pàgines
...unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof of a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.* Of this it is well remarked by Prof. Hansel (Aids to Faith, p. 21), that " the argument, as thus stated,... | |
 | 1863 - 534 pàgines
...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.' As we have examined and exposed the fallacy of the argument from experience before now (see Christian... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 pàgines
...unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle from the nature of the fact is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." But in the same essay (vol. ii. 136, Dub. 1779), he makes this confession. " I beg the limitations... | |
 | John Brown Paton - 1864 - 198 pàgines
...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."* The pith of his entire essay on miracles is concentrated in that terse sentence of Faley's, " It is... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - 252 pàgines
...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.' * And if so, it is an undeniable consequence that ' no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pàgines
...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," the word "expeiernce," if it has any meaning, must refer to experience that embraces the whole subject... | |
 | 1867 - 824 pàgines
...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." And again : " There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise... | |
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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. 
