It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential... Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 573by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872Full view - About this book
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 354 pages
...it was to him inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, wiihout the mediation of something which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. We must in all our mental acts remain within the limits of our own senses, our own concepts, our own... | |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 732 pages
...determined " (see Mod. Mater., by Rev. WF Wilkinson); and in his third Letter to Bentley he says : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...other matter, without mutual contact, as it must do if graviGRAVITY OR WHAT? 49! tation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That... | |
| 1888 - 928 pages
...distance. " It ia inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something clso which is not material, operate upon and affect other...mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the senseof Epicurus be essential and inherent in it ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential... | |
| Honoré de Balzac - 1889 - 430 pages
...him. His own position was quite clearly stated in his third letter to Bentley, in which he said : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...inherent in it. And this is the reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential... | |
| Jerome Dean Davis - 1889 - 274 pages
...with this. Newton said, "Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to fixed laws. It is inconceivable that inanimate, brute matter should,...material, operate upon and affect other matter, without contact." To this, also, after nearly two hundred years of further investigation, Faraday, Helmholtz,... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - 1889 - 252 pages
...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... | |
| 1889 - 784 pages
...involving no consideration of real and primary physical causes. " It is inconceivable," he says, " 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... | |
| Kurd Lasswitz - 1890 - 642 pages
...Fälligkeit zur Bewegungsänderung iuhäriere, sondern dafs ein immaterielles Prinzip zur 1 A. a. 0. p. 438. It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should,...Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason, why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate,... | |
| Kurd Lasswitz - 1890 - 630 pages
...Fähigkeit zur Bewegungsänderung inhäriere, sondern dafs ein immaterielles Prinzip zur 1 A. a. 0. p. 438. It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should,...other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, ifgravitation, in the seuse of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason, why... | |
| Franz Hettinger - 1890 - 388 pages
...laws of gravitation by no means explain the origin of movement." 2 "It is inconceivable," he says, 3 "that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation be essential to, not the . T . . Gmvity and inherent in it. That gravity should be niove t origin of... | |
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