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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. "
The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature - Page 419
1821
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The British Millennial Harbinger

Churches of Christ - 1853 - 588 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature o: the fact, is as entire as any 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...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men imist die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended...
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An Inquiry Concerning Religion

George Long - Apologetics - 1855 - 368 pages
...experience has established those 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." It is obvious that the force of this argument turns entirely on the meaning which is assigned to the...
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The doctrines and difficulties of the Christian faith contemplated from the ...

Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - Theology, Doctrinal - 1856 - 304 pages
...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 .... There must, therefore, be an uniform experience against any miraculous event, otherwise the event...
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Half-hours with the freethinkers, ed. by J. Watts, 'Iconoclast', and A. Collins

John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended in...
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The British Spiritual Telegraph, Volume 4

Spiritualism - 1859 - 252 pages
...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 plain consequence is, that no,, testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...
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Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World: With Narrative Illustrations

Robert Dale Owen - Apparitions - 1860 - 424 pages
...479. 44 THE PRESUMPTION OF A SCEPTIC. the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." * Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience establishes is a law...
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Footfalls on the boundary of another world. From the 10th Amer. ed., with ...

Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 pages
...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."* Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience establishes is a law of...
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The Path which Led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church

Peter Hardeman Burnett - Catholic converts - 1860 - 812 pages
...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 language of this proposition, if taken in its strict literal sense, is stronger, perhaps, than...
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

1861 - 838 pages
...firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very miracle, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." (Hume's " Essays," voL iL, Essay X., p. 133.) The pith of his entire Essay is concentrated in that...
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