| Edmund Beckett (1st baron Grimthorpe.) - 1879 - 124 páginas
...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...philosophical matters a ' competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity ' must be caused by an agent, acting according to cer' tain laws : but whether... | |
| Thomas Harper - 1884 - 444 páginas
...that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." This passage... | |
| John Quarry - 1880 - 216 páginas
...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...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws,... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 páginas
...action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me to great an absurdity that I beliere no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can e car fall into it." The greatest of philosophical reasoners, though inspired with this brilliant dash... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1881 - 674 páginas
...through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and foree may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." This passage... | |
| L. F. March Phillips - 1883 - 450 páginas
...objective cause is concerned, are due to simple " modes of motion." " No man," Sir Isaac Newton wrote, " no man who has in philosophical matters a competent "faculty of thinking, can ever fall into the absurdity that " gravity is innate, inherent, or essential to matter." And, writing in the growing... | |
| Ágost Heller - 1884 - 778 páginas
...body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, „without the mediation of any thing eise, by and through which their action „and force may...ab„surdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical mattere a com„petent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by „an... | |
| Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1882 - 252 páginas
...topic, and speaks more decidedly. The notion of gravity being inherent to matter " is to me," he says, " so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting... | |
| 1888 - 928 páginas
...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 ever fall into tt?'—MUr to Entity. Ала we also know that he sought for the mechanism of gravitation in the properties... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1889 - 474 páginas
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking will ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws,... | |
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