An Enquiry Into The Nature of the Human Soul: Wherein The Immateriality of the Soul Is Evinced from the Principles Of Reason and Philosophy. ¬An Appendix To the First Part of the Enquiry Into The Nature of the Human Soul, Volumen3A. Millar, 1750 - 280 páginas |
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Página 197 - ... of things. Gravity could not have determined the planets to move from weft to eaft in orbits nearly circular, almoft in the fame plane ; nor could this power have projected the comets with all variety of directions. If we fuppofe the matter of the fyftem to be accumulated in the centre by its gravity, no mechanical principles, with the affiftance of this power of gravity, could feparate the vaft mafs into fuch parts as the fun and planets, and, after carrying them into their different diftances...
Página 111 - nature are conftant and regular, and for ought we " know, all of them may be refolved into one general " and e xtenjive power : but this power itfelf derives its " properties and efficacy, not from mechanifm, but, " in a great meafure, from the immediate influence of " the firji mover" This place is ftrangely worded, and leaves the mind in great uncertainty.
Página 248 - ... to that which is requisite to carry a body in a circle there about the sun that is acted on by the remaining force only. Therefore, from the moment of the conjunction, the moon is carried without such a circle, receding continually from the sun, to greater and greater distances...
Página 118 - This may appear a very ingenious conceit to us, but it is very. unartful to fuppofe the Deity employing one part of matter to move, or direct another part of it; the greater part to move the lefs.
Página 27 - Accordingly, we find in his Optical Queries, and in his letters to Boyle, that Newton had very early made the attempt to account for gravitation by means of the pressure of a medium, and that the reason he did not publish these investigations "proceeded from hence only, that he found he was not able, from experiment and observation, to give a satisfactory account of this medium, and the manner of its operation in producing the chief phenomena of nature.
Página iii - ... put. I have not leifure at prefent to prepare it for public view. In the mean time I fend you the following fheets as a token of my fincere refpeft. It is...
Página 111 - ... we are always meeting with *' powers that furpafs mere mechanifm, or the •' effects of matter and motion. The laws of *' nature are conftant and regular, and for ought '' we know all of them may be refolved into one " general and extenfive power ; but this power itfelf " derives its properties and efficacy not from " mechanifm, but in a great meafure from the " immediate influences on the firft mover.
Página 106 - Lucretius endeavours to vindicate Epicurus's fcheme from irreligion, becaufe he had fpoke magnificently of the Deity, in feveral places: as if that were enough to make a falfe doctrine as conducive to virtue among men, as true and rational principles. Des Cartes, before Spinoza, had given the government of the univerfe to matter and motion. And Leibnitz, under a pretence of extolling the original contrivance of things, leaves the execution of all to this dead fubftance. According to all thefe fchemes,...