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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... "
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of ... - Page 493
by John Stuart Mill - 1884 - 622 pages
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The British Palladium: Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and ..., Volume 13

1766 - 226 pages
...inconceivable to Sir Ifjae, that inanimate brute Matter ihould, without the Mediation of fomething file, which is not material, operate upon and afFect other Matter, without mutual Contaft ; as it mull be, if Gravitation, in the Senfe of Epicurut, be euential and inherent in it....
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - 1808 - 590 pages
...inconceivable," fays he, " that in" animate brute matter mould, without the mediation " of fomething elfe which is not material, operate " upon, and affect other matter, without mutual con" tact ; as it muft do, if gravitation, in the fenfe of " Epicurus, be eflential and inherent in...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 pages
...inconceivable," fays he, ** that inanimate brute matter fhould, without the " mediation of fomething elfe which is not material, " operate upon, and affect other matter, without " mutual "contact ; as it muft do, if gravitation, in " the fenfe of Epicurus, be effential and inherent in ** it. And...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceiv" able," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, " without the...something else which is not " material, operate upon, and aflect other matter, without " mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense of Epicurus,...
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Dissertation, exhibiting a general view of the progress of mathematical and ...

John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pages
...following passage, in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley, is still more explicit : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 4

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...alter your numbers. " In " The last clause of the second position I like very well. It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...inherent in it. And this is one " reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...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...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 4

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. 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 any thing else, by and through...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 91

1823 - 832 pages
...according to his opinion, we cannot conceive a body to act where it is not. " That gravity (said he) 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 something else, by and through...
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Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions

1824 - 878 pages
...following passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity...
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