 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 pages
...essential to matter, so that one body " may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, with" out the mediation of any thing else, by and through which...competent faculty of thinking, "can ever fall into." I would therefore appeal, in the language of Newton, to any man who has the competent faculty of thinking,... | |
 | 1882 - 662 pages
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can * Published, like the Astronomy, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. fall into it. Gravity... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pages
...their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can , v. r fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws."... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 426 pages
...and inherent in it, and this is the reason why I desire that you would not ascribe it to me. It is so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent way of thinking, can ever fall into it." * So even those may dis* On tins subject, Stewart remarks... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 pages
...inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a ractntm, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through...matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fell into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws." Gravity... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 632 pages
...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...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into. Gravity must be cnused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 620 pages
...vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may bo conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 552 pages
...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...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Thus Newton, in giving out his great, law, did not abandon the idea that matter cannot act where it... | |
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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,... 
