 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 530 pages
...their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a...into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constancy according to certain laws." — A'ewton's letter in Benlley's Works, Vol. iii pp. 211,212.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 540 pages
...another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can , v. r fall... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 630 pages
...another, at a distance, through 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 ah absurdity, that I believe no man-, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking,... | |
 | Medicine - 1847 - 900 pages
...another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fell into." (Vide, Harper's... | |
 | 1847 - 28 pages
...another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to...to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' This passage... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 488 pages
...inherent in matter, Newton earnestly repelled, declaring that it was inconceivable, and that the motions " must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws." — So Franklin showed that a thunder-cloud and the charged conductor of an electrical machine manifested... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - Force and energy - 1851 - 426 pages
...and inherent in it, and this is the reason why I desire that you would not ascribe it to me. It is so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent way of thinking, can ever fall into it." * So even those may dis* On tins subject, Stewart remarks... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | Joseph Devey - Logic - 1854 - 420 pages
...gravity should be innate and essential to matter so that one body should act on another through a vacuum, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has a competent faculty of thinking in philosophical matters can ever fall into it." It does not appear... | |
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That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... 
