...inconsistent with what Sir Isaac Newton writes in his third letter to Bentley: "It is inconceivable, he says, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus...

...E. du Bois-Reymond den Vorwurf, dass sie in dem berühmten Briefe Newton's an Bentley1) die Stelle: „It is inconceivable , that inanimate brute matter...material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutna/ contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent...

...dessen Schrift: A confutation ofAtheism, enthaltene Worte fast wörtlich wiederholend, folgendermassen: „It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should without the mediation of something eise, which is not material, operate upon and affect other motter without mutual contact, as it must...

...E. du Bois-Reyinond den Vorwurf, dass sie in dem berühmten Briefe Newton's an Bentley1) die Stelle: „It is inconceivable , that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something eise , which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must...

...E. du Bois-Reymond den Vorwurf, dass sie in dem berühmten Briefe Newton's an Bentley l) die Stelle: „It is inconceivable , that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something eise , which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it...

...: -l! is inconceivable that inauimate brüte matter should without the mediation of something eise, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual coutact, äs it must do, if graviution, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it."...

...illustrious author, who distinctly states, in words already quoted under the first Prolegomenon, ' 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...

...only quoted partially. ' It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter Newton s Opinion of it. 29 ' should, without the mediation of something else which is ' not material, operate on and affect other matter, without ' contact, as it must if gravitation in the sense of ' Epicurus...

...applicable to all kinds of force between the several parts of matter, whether atoms or larger masses : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason...

...counsel and dominion ot an intelligent and powerful Being ;" and in his third letter to Bentley : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter, should,...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact ;" La Place supposed the velocity of gravitating action to be instantaneous, a velocity which is impossible...