 | William Henry Ruffner - Apologetics - 1852 - 692 pages
...lays down the principle: " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous [that is, more improbable,] than the fact which it endeavors to establish." This is a just principle.... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1853 - 826 pages
...exposing, when he declared " 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." This was, in effect, to say, that a miraculous event demands a miraculous... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...worthy of our attention), " 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 endeavors to establish : and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... | |
 | George Long - Apologetics - 1855 - 368 pages
...of it. The maxim is, " 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 : and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... | |
 | abbé Marie Gabriel - Christianity - 1857 - 482 pages
...argument against miracles is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculo'us than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because it is always more likely... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...of our attention), " That no testimony is sufficient to a 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. And even in that case there is. a mutual destruction of arguments,... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - Faith - 1858 - 494 pages
...with Mr. Hume that " no human 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 endeavors to establish. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - Bible and geology - 1859 - 628 pages
...worthy of our attention, 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 endeavors to establish." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence of testimony, when applied... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1859 - 252 pages
...plain consequence is, 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. Even then"— David Hume however has no such scruples as the Chrittian... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1860 - 400 pages
...worthy of our attention, 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." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence of testimony, when applied... | |
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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... 
