Project Gutenberg #57532
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Charles Babbage
1864Babbage's autobiography and account of his calculating engines, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg HTML.
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The explanation which I gave of the nature of miracles in “The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise,” published in May, 1837, has now stood the test of more than a quarter of a century, during which it has been examined by some of the deepest thinkers in many countries. Its adoption by those writers who have referred to it has, as far as my information goes, been unanimous.