 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,...  Self Culture - Page 6801895Full view - About this book
 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 580 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The materialist is not entitled, then, to assume that the phenomena ascribed to... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 602 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The materialist is not entitled, then, to assume that the phenomena ascribed to... | |
 | John Quarry - 1880 - 216 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be -conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws,... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me to great an absurdity that I beliere no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can e car fall into it." The greatest of philosophical reasoners, though inspired with this brilliant dash... | |
 | 1881 - 462 pages
...thing 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 man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to fixed laws ; but... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1881 - 898 pages
...dictum of "common-sense:" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose " absurdity id so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition —... | |
 | 1883 - 644 pages
...of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed through one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it". This is explicit enough. The constant efforts of men of science since Newton's... | |
 | L. F. March Phillips - 1883 - 450 pages
...objective cause is concerned, are due to simple " modes of motion." " No man," Sir Isaac Newton wrote, " no man who has in philosophical matters a competent "faculty of thinking, can ever fall into the absurdity that " gravity is innate, inherent, or essential to matter." And, writing... | |
 | 1883 - 570 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To a friend he wrote : " It is inconceivable that innate brute matter should without... | |
 | George Gabriel Stokes - 1884 - 156 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ;... | |
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