Author: John Radford YoungPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483951266
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Excerpt from The Mosaic Cosmogony Not Adverse to Modern Science It may here, too, be right to' mention, that al though, in speaking of miracles, he has adopted the terms employed by the sceptical writers themselves, yet that a miracle does not necessarily imply either a violation, or an interruption, or a suspension of any of the laws of nature. It is simply an occurrence inexplicable by those laws alone, as stated in the first of the lectures referred to at p. 38, and which was originally published in the year 1833. For ex ample - If we were to see a heavy body suspended in the air near the surface of the earth, Without any discoverable support, we should not for a moment suppose that the law of gravity was being violated, or interrupted, or suspended, but should reasonably conclude that some inexplicable power - inexplicable because supernatural - was in operation upon that particular body, and acting in a direction opposite to that of the still existing force of gravity - See Trench, Notes on the Miracles, pp. 14 - 18. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
