 ... 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 an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 4371880Full view - About this book
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 934 pages
...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 I believe no...caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,...caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...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 I believe no...caused by an Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws." He further says, " In my former letter, I represented, that the " diurnal rotations... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 662 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws. But whether this agent be material, or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - Philosophy - 1833 - 522 pages
...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 I believe no...caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether that agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 578 pages
...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 I believe no...caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1838 - 572 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ho man, who has in philosophical matters a competent...caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 - 1842 - 896 pages
...another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider-... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Philologists - 1842 - 474 pages
...another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider-... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1904 - 724 pages
...the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man...caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of... | |
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