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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,... "
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of ... - Page 459
by John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 600 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108

1858 - 620 pages
...one body may act upon another at a distance, through ' a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force...so great an absurdity that I believe ' no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty ' of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...another, through a vacuum, without the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who " has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 pages
...matter, so that one body may act on ano" ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe " no man who has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe '• no man who has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 4

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 91

1823 - 832 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. ' (See Horseley's...
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The theology of the early patriarchs, illustrated by an appeal to ..., Volume 1

Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the human mind

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it". With this passage...
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Elements of the philosophy of the human mind

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage...
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Malvern Hills: With Minor Poems and Essays, Volume 1

Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...one body may act upon " another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation " of any thing else, by and through which their action, and force...so great an " absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical " matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. " Gravity...
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