 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,...  Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review - Page 631865Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 pages
...matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." This passage... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
...through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and i'orce may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great...matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind,... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 pages
...that a body may act on 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, in philosophical matters, has acbmpetent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (See Sir Isaac... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 650 pages
...things alone to cohere, without the intervention of a third." through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action...matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that " the doctrines... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pages
...things alone to cohere, without the intervention of a third." through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action...and force may be conveyed from one to another, is Jo me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 pages
...matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action...matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 pages
...'To suppose 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...matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity thus impressed on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 pages
...wrote he, "so that one body may act upon ' another at a distance, through a vacuum ' without mediation of anything else by ' and through which their action...matters a competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another...matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 pages
...body may act upon another at a distance, ; through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be...no man who has in philosophical matters a competent i- faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction ii which his conception of gravity thus... | |
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