21 Jan y 1814

Ch.3. Natural Evidence

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Meantime according to these very histories, multitudes there were to whom this superior evidence was actually administered—to human beings in great numbers administered in great quantities—administered within a very small extent of territory—and yet within this narrow extent no general persuasion produced. To those most extraordinary facts which notwithstanding this best sort of evidence is in such prodigious quantity supposed or alledged to have been administered to them so small a number if any of them were made to believe, on no other ground than that of a sort of evidence which in proof of the most ordinary and most naturally probable species of facts is more received—more at least where any ofa better sort is to be had, we who now here are called upon to give credence.