- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 године
And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction - 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 године“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, and the superior only gives us an assurance suitable to that degree of force, which remains, after deducting the inferior.”
- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 годинеalways reject the greater miracle.
- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 годинеThe maxim, by which we commonly conduct ourselves in our reasonings, is, that the objects, of which we have no experience, resemble those, of which we have; that what we have found to be most usual is always most probable; and that where there is an opposition of arguments, we ought to give the preference to such as are founded on the greatest number of past observations
- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 годинеEloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding
- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 годинеBut it is nothing strange, I hope, that men should lie in all ages.
- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 годинеThis argument may appear over subtle and refined; but is not in reality different from the reasoning of a judge, who supposes, that the credit of two witnesses, maintaining a crime against any one, is destroyed by the testimony of two others, who affirm him to have been two hundred leagues distant, at the same instant when the crime is said to have been committed.
so like we cannot/ should not hold the miracles in any regard of one religion because its is very well possible that in trying to establish the foundation for their system, they will try to refute others.. but in doing so they have done it themselves.. i guess?
- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 годинеSuppose that the Caesarean and Pompeian factions had, each of them, claimed the victory in these battles, and that the historians of each party had uniformly ascribed the advantage to their own side; how could mankind, at this distance, have been able to determine between them?
history and historians are just as subjecive as he next person.. if both sides are writing and glorifying their own faction how are we to know who's won?
- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 годинеavidum genus auricularum
mankind is greedy for lies
- 302 Rizvi Khadijaje citiraoпре 2 годинеUpon the whole, then, it appears, that no testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a probability, much less to a proof; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof; derived from the very nature of the fact, which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only, which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience, which assures us of the laws of nature.
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