Page:A philosophical essay on probabilities Tr. Truscott, Emory 1902.djvu/135

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CONCERNING THE PROBABILITIES OF TESTIMONIES.
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years the historical facts regarded to-day as the most certain.

Craig has tried to submit to calculus the gradual enfeebling of the proofs of the Christian religion; supposing that the world ought to end at the epoch when it will cease to be probable, he finds that this ought to take place 1454 years after the time when he writes. But his analysis is as faulty as his hypothesis upon the duration of the moon is bizarre.