“ If a man believes in unalterable natural law, he cannot believe in any miracle in any age. ”
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908). copy citation
Author | G. K. Chesterton |
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Source | Orthodoxy |
Topic | age law |
Date | 1908 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/130/pg130-images.html |
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“You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century. If a man believes in unalterable natural law, he cannot believe in any miracle in any age. If a man believes in a will behind law, he can believe in any miracle in any age. Suppose, for the sake of argument, we are concerned with a case of thaumaturgic healing. A materialist of the twelfth century could not believe it any more than a materialist of the twentieth century.”
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