 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 páginas
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The materialist is not entitled, then, to assume that the phenomena ascribed to attraction will not... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 páginas
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The materialist is not entitled, then, to assume that the phenomena ascribed to attraction will not... | |
 | Edmund Beckett (1st baron Grimthorpe.) - 1879 - 124 páginas
...one body may ' act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, ' without the mediation of anything else, by and through ' which their action and force...philosophical matters a ' competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity ' must be caused by an agent, acting according to cer' tain laws : but whether... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 páginas
...action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me to great an absurdity that I beliere no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can e car fall into it." The greatest of philosophical reasoners, though inspired with this brilliant dash... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1881 - 412 páginas
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." 1 I know that physical science has made great advance since Newton's time, and that the scientific... | |
 | 1881 - 460 páginas
...of any thing else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to fixed laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1881 - 902 páginas
...dictum of "common-sense:" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose " absurdity id so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter is capable... | |
 | 1883 - 644 páginas
...vacuum without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed through one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it". This is explicit enough. The constant efforts of men of science since Newton's day to account for gravitation... | |
 | 1883 - 572 páginas
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To a friend he wrote : " It is inconceivable that innate brute matter should without the mediation... | |
 | L. F. March Phillips - 1883 - 450 páginas
...objective cause is concerned, are due to simple " modes of motion." " No man," Sir Isaac Newton wrote, " no man who has in philosophical matters a competent "faculty of thinking, can ever fall into the absurdity that " gravity is innate, inherent, or essential to matter." And, writing in the growing... | |
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That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... 
