...miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, 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 complete...

...Variable experience amounts only to probability — invariable experience, to certainty. 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 faqt, cannot be surmounted...

...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. * Boswell's Life of Johnson. Oxford, 1826. vol. iii. p. 169. " The plain consequence...

...prevail, but 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,...

...with the doctrines in confirmation of which miracles were ' wrought.' "* Hume contends that 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...

...laws of nature ; and as firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proofs against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be." a miracle, than that it should not be so subjected ; and that the probability of any...

...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."* boasting. And the great argument which, in the opinion of its author, was to...

...are gone so soon as the scene is opened or the light of day is let in. I i" A miracle," says 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 entire...

...unalterable experience has established the laws [of nature], the proof against the existence of ice, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined :"* and, " as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is a direct and...

...miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, 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 complete...