 | William Baird Elkin - 1904 - 352 pages
...against miracles "of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will .be useful as long as the world endures."2 For so long, he presumes, "will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history,... | |
 | Henry F. Henderson - Church of Scotland - 1905 - 296 pages
...argument against transubstantiation), which, if just, will with the wise and learned be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and...consequently will be useful as long as the world endures ; for so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and...consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred... | |
 | John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume - Philosophers - 1910 - 460 pages
...discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and...consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred... | |
 | Henry Lewis - Philosophers - 1913 - 450 pages
...discovered an argument of a like nature 4 which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and,...consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures." Hume was vain, but he was also far-seeing. While Voltairism is a spent force, Hume's line of attack... | |
 | Charles Harris - Apologetics - 1914 - 668 pages
...that I have discovered an argument which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and,...consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures." His argument is, however, vulnerable at several points. (i.) Miracles are not correctly described as... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 768 pages
...discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and...consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures." This argument he summarises as follows : A miracle is a vinlatinn of the laws of nature ; and as a... | |
 | Robert A. Larmer - Cooking - 1996 - 172 pages
...discovered an argument of a like nature which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and...consequently will be useful as long as the world endures; for so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred... | |
 | Michael Levine - Philosophy - 1989 - 234 pages
...[against miracles] of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and...consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred... | |
 | Michael Alexander Stewart - Philosophy - 1990 - 340 pages
...made it a "decisive argument . . . which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and...consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures" (E. 11o). This was the argument that met with the protest — when Hume first presented it to a young... | |
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I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. 
