Mill, in speaking of Hume's celebrated principle, "that nothing is credible which is contradictory to experience, or at variance with the laws of nature," calls it a very plain and harmless proposition, being, in effect, nothing more than that whatever is contradictory to a complete induction is incredible. Admit the existence of a Deity, and the possibility of a miracle is the natural consequence. No doubt our examination of the evidence which sustains an unusual phenomenon should be most carefully conducted ; but we must not measure the credibility or incredibility of an event by the narrow sphere of our own experience, nor forget that there is a Divine energy which overrides what we familiarly call the laws of nature.


"Passages from the life of a philosopher", Appendix, p. 488 - Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)


Mill, in speaking of Hume's celebrated principle, that nothing is credible which is contradictory to experience, or at variance with the laws of...

Mill, in speaking of Hume's celebrated principle, that nothing is credible which is contradictory to experience, or at variance with the laws of...

Mill, in speaking of Hume's celebrated principle, that nothing is credible which is contradictory to experience, or at variance with the laws of...

Mill, in speaking of Hume's celebrated principle, that nothing is credible which is contradictory to experience, or at variance with the laws of...