Profundity of logic! Counterfeit bank bills are common, therefore none are genuine.

"The fact is, the pure historic idea was never developed among the Hebrews," _i.
e._, Moses and the prophets were all liars.

That is the fact, you may take my word for it.

"Indeed, no just notion of the true nature of history is possible without a perception of the inviolability of the chain of finite causes, and of the impossibility of miracles" which translated into plain words is simply this: No man can understand history who believes in God Almighty.

"A narrative is to be deemed fabulous when it proceeds from an age in which there were no written records," such, for instance, as any account of the creation of the first man--for no event could possibly happen unless there was a scribe there to write it.