How Butler would have answered Hume, Butler to whom probability was the guide of life, we cannot tell.

Newman's answer was not satisfactory to Froude.

If Hume were right, how could he also be wrong?
Newman might say, with Tertullian, Credo quia impossibile.

But mankind in general are not convinced by paradox, and "to be suddenly told that the famous argument against miracles was logically valid after all was at least startling."* -- * Short Studies on Great Subjects, 4th series, p.

205.
-- Perplexed by this dilemma, Froude at Oxford as a graduate, taking pupils in what was then called science, and would now be called philosophy, for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores.