...a reasoner to fall into such an error. In a former part of the essay he thus expresses himself: — "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire...

...strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of 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...

...appears to me to be a witness to the power of the Gospel of a very valuable kind. ' NOTE 18. Hume 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...

...passage, than has ever been called forth by the wit of man before by the same number of words: — '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...

...with it before. Aye ! even so. Here is something like it in a well known author of the last century. "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...

...philosophic as he is, does not 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, * " Hume's Essays and Treatises on Various Subjects," 2nd ed., London,...

...philosophic as he is, does not 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...

...to the established course of nature, is taken by men to be divine."2 "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...

...against the competency of the testimony offered. I understand him. as assuming, substantially, that, as a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, — and as the general uniform operation of those laws has been proven by general experience, the proof against...

...against Miracles. Home 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...