...said: " Is there'not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods 1," But this may be said to be the first effect of all science. It is the faith of the untutored Indian,...

...Tyndall, " Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius when he affirms that nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods ? " And we are tempted also to inquire how far modern science differs either in its principles or motions...

...not a temptation," he says, " to close to some extent with Lucretius when he affirms that ' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods,'or with Bruno when he declares that matter is not ' that mere empty capacity which philosophers...

...constitution of nature has been in any way determined by intelligent design. Nature, according to Lucretius, is seen to do all things spontaneously, of herself, without the meddling of the gods. If by the gods we are to understand Mars, Bacchus, Apollo, and the rest, all honour be to Lucretius...

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...immeasurable ranges of space and time, suggested the nebular hypothesis to Kant, its first propounder. ' If you will apprehend and keep in mind these things,...spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods.' " Then came the darkness of the Middle Ages ; and, as the Professor quotes from Lord Bacon, " at a...

...kind, they fell at length into the arrangements out of which this system of things has been formed. 'If you will apprehend and keep in mind these things,...spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods.' 1 To meet the objection that his atoms cannot be seen, Lucretius describes a violent storm, and shows...

...immeasurable ranges of space and time suggested the nebular hypothesis to Kant, its first propounder. " If you will apprehend and keep in mind these things,...spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods." ' 1 Born 99 B. o. s Monro's translation. In hia criticism of this work (Contemporary Review, 1867)...

...kind, they fell at length into the arrangements out of which this system of things has been formed. 'If you will apprehend and keep in mind these things,...spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods.' 1 To meet the objection that his atoms cannot be seen, Lucretius describes a violent storm, and shows...

...immeasurable ranges of space and time suggested the nebular hypothesis to Kant, its first propounder. " If you will apprehend and keep in mind these things,...spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods."f During the centuries between the first of these three philosophers and the last, the human...