Thomas Paine — "Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should…"

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
Thomas Paine — Thomas Paine Early Modern · Common Sense, Rights of Man

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The Age of Reason

Date: 1794-1795

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