...Miraculous. — " The only distinct meaning of the word natural is stated, fixed, or settled; since what ia natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, that is, to affect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous docs to...

...the material world ; for here we Bee the prevalence of law, — and, as Butler says, " what is fixed as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so — i'.«., to effect it continually, or at stated times — as what is supernatural, or miraculous,...

...Advancement of Learning. " The only distinct meaning of the word ' natural ' is stated, fixed, or tettled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes...supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once." BUTLER: Analogy of Revealed Religion. Down, Bromley, Kent, October lit, 1859. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES...

...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent mind to render it so, — that is, to effect it continually or at stated times, — as what is supernatural does to effect it for once." f He merely inquires into the form of the miracle, may remind us that...

...that inductive method which was afterwards spread out by Newton, and so largely employed by Butler. What is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so continually, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once. Therefore, he says,...

...since what is natural as much requires, and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, that is, to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural cr miraculous does to effect it for once. And from hence it must follow, that persons' notion of what...

...the present to be natural. But the only distinct meaning of that word is, stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes...of the works of God, and the dispensations of his Vrovidence Nor is there any absurdity in supposing that 1 See Part II. chap. ii. and Part II. chap....

...Advancement of Learning. "The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural- is stated, fixed, or tettled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes...supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once." BUTLEB : Analogy of Revealed Religion. Doom, Bromley, Kent. October lit, 1859. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES...

...to it, when he says, " The only distinct meaning of that word Natural is Stated, Fixed or Settled ; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes...what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it at once." This is Plato's meaning (De Leg. iv.), when he says, that God holds the beginning and end...

...that inductive method which was afterwards opened out by Newton, and so largely employed by Butler. What is natural as much requires and pre-supposes an intelligent agent to render it so continually, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once. Therefore, he says that...