David Hume — "It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations,…"

It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors, who transmitted them with that inviolable sanction and authority, which always attend received opinions.
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, 'Of Miracles'

Date: 1748

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