 | Wilhelm Ahrens - 1904 - 678 pages
...devise. CAUCHY. voir C.-A. Valson, „La vie et les travaux du baron Cauchy" (Paris 1868), t. 1, p. 85. When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an...Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pages
...Newton, dating from December 10, 1692, to February 25, 1693." The first of Newton's letters begins: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had...principles as might work with considering men for a belief in a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pages
...rejuvenescence, this regeneration would have been impossible. EK CHAMBERS. ON THE BELIEF IN A GOD SIR,—When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | 1922 - 1486 pages
...1692, the last 25 Feb. 1693. ' When I wrote my treatise about our system," Newton says to Bentley, ' I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men ior the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 pages
...approved the main features of the scheme, but devoted itself especially to the above argument. " Sir ; When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upo1* such principles as might work with considering men, for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can... | |
 | Adolph Judah Snow - 1926 - 268 pages
...would explain Newton's letter to Bentley in which he says : ' When I wrote my treatise [the Principia] about our system, I had an eye upon such principles...Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.' That hope was found in Newton's suggestion of inert matter moved freely... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1926 - 334 pages
...his Boyle Lectures on Atheism. "When I wrote my Treatise about our system," Sir Isaac calmly avows, " I had an eye upon such Principles as might "work with...Deity ; and " nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that " Purpose." And the foregoneness of his conclusions is further made plain in a passage... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - 1970 - 188 pages
...ones, but in the order of nature the qualities of the large bodies depend on those of the particles. Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose." 72 In the same letter, and elsewhere,73 he points out that given the complex... | |
 | J. S. Bromley - 1970 - 992 pages
...colleagues in the divinity of Christ, he kept his secret to himself and wrote his Principia with ' an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a deity'.1 The great historical scholars, almost to a man, were ecclesiastics — non-juring divines... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 pages
...from Newton in behalf of Christian theism, Newton wrote him with warm approval, weighing his words: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."6 When Leibniz later accused Newton of weakening the cause of natural religion... | |
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WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. 
