 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 Life and Letters of Faraday - Page 78by Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 896 pages
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1843 - 648 pages
...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,...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.£+ This passage... | |
 | 1882 - 662 pages
...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,...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 - 530 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...into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constancy according to certain laws." — A'ewton's letter in Benlley's Works, Vol. iii pp. 211,212.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pages
...at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 630 pages
...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, is to me so great ah absurdity, that I believe no man-, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking,... | |
 | 1847 - 900 pages
...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,...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fell into." (Vide, Harper's... | |
 | 1847 - 28 pages
...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,...to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' This passage... | |
 | 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 - 536 pages
...act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...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... | |
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