...evidently been too much even for the intellect of Newton, who, in a letter to Dr. Bentley, says : — "It is inconceivable that inanimate, brute, matter...sense of Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, or that one body may act upon another,...

...the following example : "It is inconceivable," said Newton in one of his letters to Dr. Bentley, ', that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. That gravitv should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another,...

...fact impossible because it appears to him inconceivable.' l ' It is inconceivable,' said Newton, ' that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on...

...fact impossible because it appears to him inconceivable.' 1 ' It is inconceivable,' said Newton, ' that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is no{ material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should...

...between them, that in a letter to Bentley which has been quoted by Faraday in this place, he says : — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon...

...between them, that in a letter to Bentley which has been quoted by Faraday in this place, he says :— " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon...

...commendatur. DC Ciritafe Dei, xi. 31. J Sir Isaac Newton in the thirJ of his Letters to Bentley remarks, " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be- if gravitation, in the tense of Epicurus- he essential and inherent in it. And this if one reason...

...Newton's letters to Bentlcy, cited by John Stuart Mill in his "System of Logic," which runs as follows : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on...

...gravitation answer. " It is inconceivable," says Newton, in a celebrated passage of his letter to Bentley, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon...

...gravitation answer. " It is inconceivable," says Newion, in a celebrated passage of his letter to Bentley, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon...