...the other is accompanied by increase ; since, for an explanation which has a seeming feasibility, it substitutes an explanation which, carrying us back...activity ; and in what appears mere vacancy it finds a marvelous play of forces. Each generation of physicists discovers, in so-called " brute matter," powers...

...It is untrue, then, that the foregoing argument proposes to evolve a true belief from a belief that was wholly false. Contrariwise, the ultimate form...which, but a few years before, the most instructed physicist would have thought incredible ; as instance the ability of a mere iron plate to take up the...

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...rapidly converging. 'Under one of its aspects,' writes Mr Herbert Spencer in his most recent volume, ' scientific progress is a gradual transfiguration of...simplicity it reveals great complexity; where there appeared absolute inertness it discloses intense activity; and in what appears mere vacancy it finds...

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