So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity... The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer]. - Page 92by Thomas Mortimer - 1810Full view - About this book
| James Orr - 1903 - 268 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." 1 CHAPTER XI HUME'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS : POLITICAL... | |
| William Baird Elkin - 1904 - 352 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." 1 Vol. XXVII, p. 362 n.; cf. Orr, David Hume, pp.... | |
| David Hume - 1907 - 324 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. SECTION XI. OF A PARTICULAR PROVIDENCE AND OF A FUTURE... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives... | |
| John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume - 1910 - 460 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. SECTION XI OF A PARTICULAR PROVIDENCE AND OF A FUTURE... | |
| 1910 - 728 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its verity : and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in bis own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, >nd gives him a determination... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. (From An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.) LAURENCE... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives... | |
| Edgar Thackray - 1916 - 252 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.' Taking into account the rationalistic spirit of what... | |
| 1917 - 482 lehte
...' Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of the veracity of the Christian religion. And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it is conscious of 'a' continual miracle in his own person 1 August 22, 1913. which subverts all the principles of his understanding... | |
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