 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 838 pages
...common-sense :" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose " absurdity is so great that no man who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it !" * And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter is... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1884 - 508 pages
...and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is so great an absurdity, that no man, who has in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." From this it inevitably follows, that no body, or system of bodies can possess energy merely by virtue... | |
 | William Barlow (of Muswell Hill.) - 1885 - 422 pages
...that one body can 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." capillary action : — Magnetic and electrical attraction and repulsion, which, as far as their manifestation... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 604 pages
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of any thing else by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Nevertheless, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the primary... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 602 pages
...a. distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of any thing else by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Nevertheless, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the primary... | |
 | 1884 - 400 pages
...of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me SO great an absurdity, that I believe no...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Newton however, illogically, fought against substance beyond the range of the senses, and and denied... | |
 | Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh - 1886 - 254 pages
...decision to his reader. He adds : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." This disposes of the theory of universal gravitation, which scholastics attribute to him. It certainly... | |
 | John I. Swander - 1886 - 372 pages
...their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that 1 believe no man who has in philosophical matters a...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The greatest of philosophical reasoners, though inspired with A. He failed to discover and recognize... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1882 - 252 pages
...topic, and speaks more decidedly. The notion of gravity being inherent to matter " is to me," he says, " so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting... | |
 | 1888 - 926 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 ever fall into tt?'—MUr to Entity. Ала we also know that he sought for the mechanism of gravitation in the properties... | |
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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,... 
