 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...  Invisible Light: Or, The Electric Theory of Creation - Seite 50von George Woodward Warder - 1900 - 334 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 Seiten
...from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceiv" able," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, " without the mediation of something else which is not " material, operate upon, and aflect other matter, without " mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 Seiten
..." In " The last clause of the second position I like very well. 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 be, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 458 Seiten
...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 or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent,... | |
 | 1824 - 844 Seiten
...passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit: " 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... | |
 | 1824 - 878 Seiten
...passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 Seiten
...time to consider of it." And in the third letter he remarks — " 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... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 Seiten
...and inherent to matter. Fray do not ascribe that notion to me. " 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 Seiten
...from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " 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... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 Seiten
...Bentley was dated 1693. In that letter, Sir Isaac says, — " it is incon" ceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the "mediation of something else, which is not material, ope" rate upon and affect other matter, without mutual contact, "as it must do, if gravitation be essential... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 590 Seiten
...views, but sufficiently alive to the physical inconsistency of main* "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 be, if Gravitation in the sense of... | |
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