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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... "
The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of the ... - Page 48
by Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875
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Reconciliation of Science and Religion

Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 pages
...something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. * * * That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and...
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Anti-theistic theories. Baird lect., 1877

Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 pages
...I do not pretend to know." Many of them will not refuse assent even to his much stronger statement: "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...
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The Metaphysics of the School: (pt.1) Book 5 [cont'd] Causes of being

Thomas Harper - 1884 - 444 pages
...something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and...
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Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877

Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 pages
...do not pretend to know." Many of them will not refuse assent even to his much stronger statement : " 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...
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The Problem of human life : embracing the "evolution of sound" and ...

Alexander Wilford Hall - 1883 - 552 pages
...of incorporeal entities as he contemplated the law of gravitation. In a letter to Bentley he says: " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through...
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Religious belief; its difficulties in ancient and modern times compared and ...

John Quarry - 1880 - 216 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 anything else, by and...
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The Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories

Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1881 - 412 pages
...These are bold assertions, and in striking contrast with the cautious words of Newton, who wrote : " 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...
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Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, Volume 4

1881 - 460 pages
...In the first place, Newton-s words, contained in the Third Letter to Bentloy, are as follows :—" That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another body at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else by...
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Der Irrthum der Gravitationshypothese: Kritik und Reformthesen

Ernst Rethwisch - 1882 - 100 pages
...it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. Und weiter: 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 eise, by and...
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The Electrical Review, Volume 12

1883 - 572 pages
...known facts of gravity. Newton himself, in direct contrast with what is considered as his theory, says 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 medium of anything else, by and through...
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