“ Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it ever happen in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man, seemingly in good health, should die on a sudden ”
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). copy citation
Author | David Hume |
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Source | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
Topic | health good |
Date | 1748 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9662/9662-h/9662-h.htm |
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“that fire consumes wood, and is extinguished by water; unless it be, that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of these laws, or in other words, a miracle to prevent them? Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it ever happen in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man, seemingly in good health, should die on a sudden: because such a kind of death, though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.”
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