 | John Thomson (Minister of Free St. George's, Paisley.) - 1876 - 250 pages
...his opposition to miracles. Hume candidly admitted that human testimony might prove a miracle, if " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish," — unless indeed it were wrought "in support... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 1146 pages
...moment is inconceivable. The case completely fulfils Hume's condition that, to establish a miracle, " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more, miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." It seems idle to draw " psychological parallels,"... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1878 - 564 pages
...moment is inconceivable. The case completely fulfils Hume's condition that, to establish a miracle, " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." It seems idle to draw " psychological parallels,"... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1879 - 628 pages
...which is superior. The plain consequence is, (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), ' That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and even in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1880 - 424 pages
...moment is inconceivable. The case completely fulfils Hume's condition that, to establish a miracle, 'the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' It seems idle to draw ' psychological parallels,'... | |
 | Logan Mitchell - 1881 - 258 pages
...of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and, therefore, no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish." This argument is absolutely invincible.... | |
 | John Cunningham - Scotland - 1882 - 942 pages
...argument of Tillotson upon transubstantiation, he attempts to demonstrate the startling proposition, that " no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." Yet, with all his philosophical scepticism,... | |
 | Henry Coke - 1883 - 328 pages
...head contained in the New Testament. The famous argument of Hume states the case in its aptest form. " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." To deal here with general principles only,... | |
 | John James Lias - Miracles - 1883 - 300 pages
...and striking form the objections which had been raised by Woolston and others before him. He says " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." Or, as Paley summarizes it yet more tersely... | |
 | Hubert J. Richards - Religion - 2000 - 134 pages
...seriously. They are obvious cases of coincidence or exaggeration, of misinterpretation or wishfulfilment. No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish . . . There is not to be found, in all history,... | |
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That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish... 
