 ... in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition,' to originate some movement, or to change, at least temporarily, the amount of dynamical force appropriate to some one or more material...  Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects - Page 462by John Frederick William Herschel - 1867 - 507 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 1894 - 384 pages
...with the dynamical force disengaged directly or indirectly by the act, than the pull of a hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it...small an extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality."1 This being the state of the case, it is, I think, evident that Science has shown no... | |
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 1905 - 292 pages
...required to move a single material molecule from its place through a space inconceivably minute. . . . But without the power to make some material disposition,...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." If I rightly understand the sentence which I have italicised in the following extract from a recent... | |
 | John Masson - 1907 - 498 pages
...or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable.1 It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality.' Surely Lucretius (or his master Epicurus) must have foreseen that Will must, somehow or other, exert... | |
 | John Masson - 1907 - 494 pages
...or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable.1 It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality.' Surely Lucretius (or his master Epicurus) must have foreseen that Will must, somehow or other, exert... | |
 | John Masson - 1907 - 514 pages
...or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable.1 It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality.' Surely Lucretius (or his master Epicurus) must have foreseen that Will must, somehow or other, exert... | |
 | Isaac Winter Heysinger - 1910 - 480 pages
...inconceivably minute — no more in comparison with the dynamical force disengaged, directly or indirectly, than the pull of a hair trigger in comparison with...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality. . . . " The universe presents us with an assemblage of phenomena, physical, vital and intellectual... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 524 pages
...some material disposition, to originate some movement, or to change, at least temporarily, the amonnt of dynamical force appropriate to some one or more...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." (The Fortnightly Review for July 1, 1865, Vol. I, p. 439.) This directing capacity of the animal will,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 524 pages
...molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable. It matters not that wo are ignorant of the mode in which this is performed....extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." (The Fortnightly Revietc for July 1, 1865, Vol. I, p. 439.) A demonstration of this is seen in the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 526 pages
...with the dynamical force disengaged directly or indirectly by the act than the pull of a hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." (The Fortnightly Review for July 1, 1865, Vol. I, p. 439.) This directing capacity of the animal will,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1882 - 594 pages
...the dynamical force disengaged, directly or indirectly, by the act, than the pull of a hairtrigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality. must Surely Lucretius (or his mastor Epicurus) ust have foreseen that Will must, somehow * 'If the... | |
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