 ... 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 an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,...  Nature - Page 230edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Francis Howe Johnson - 1891 - 550 pages
...believe no man, who has in 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 ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."... | |
 | 1892 - 322 pages
...believe no man who has in 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 ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.'... | |
 | Sir George Gabriel Stokes - 1893 - 302 pages
...believe no man who has, in 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 ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1894 - 388 pages
...believe no man who has in 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 ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."... | |
 | 1894 - 384 pages
...believe that no man who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws." Our only experience of personal causation is in the action of the psychical monad, the soul,... | |
 | Geoorge W. Holley - 1894 - 312 pages
...Gauss we add the declaration of Sir Isaac Newton, made in his famous 3d letter to Bentley, to wit: " Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my reader."... | |
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 1894 - 394 pages
...believe that no man who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws." Our only experience of personal causation is in the action of the psychical monad, the soul,... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1895 - 634 pages
...thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."1 Again and again Faraday quotes this passage. As Tyndall says,2 he loved to do so. He... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1895 - 714 pages
...no man, who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be ca,used by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.'... | |
 | 1895 - 710 pages
...I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.... | |
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