 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1699 - 296 pages
...there is really fuch a Power of Gravity, which cannot be afcribed to mere Matter, perpetually acting in the conftitution of the prefent Syftem ? This would...certain Phenomena of Nature ; and leave it to your confideration from what Principle they can proceed. 'Tis demonftrated, That the Sun, Moon and all the... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1809 - 450 pages
...which cannot be afcribed to mere matter, perpetually acting in the conftitution of the prefent fyftem ? This would be a new and invincible argument for the...certain phenomena of nature, and leave it to your confideration from what principle they can proceed. It is demonftrated, that the fun, moon, and all... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 578 pages
...system ? This would be a new and invincible argument for the being of God ; being a direct and positive proof that an immaterial living mind doth inform and actuate the dead matter, and support the frame of the world. I will lay before you some certain phenomena of nature, and leave it... | |
 | Arthur Quinn - Philosophy - 1977 - 328 pages
...System? This would be a new and invincible Argument for the Being of God : being a direct and positive proof, that an immaterial living Mind doth inform and actuate the dead Matter, and support the frame of the World." Then, like his Master, he backed away from defending this as a thesis.... | |
 | Alfred Rupert Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 358 pages
...universal gravitation (which Newton, Bentley maintained, had proved to exist) was a "new and positive proof, that an immaterial living Mind doth inform and actuate the dead Matter, and support the Frame of the World." Mechanical explanations, according to Bentley, from their absurd complexity... | |
 | Robert Boyle - Philosophy - 2005 - 521 pages
...system? This would be a new and invincible argument for the being of God; being a direct and positive proof that an immaterial living mind doth inform and actuate the dead matter, and support the frame of the world.'a Boyle now proceeds to a number of further points against classical... | |
 | David Ray Griffin - Philosophy - 2012 - 318 pages
...concluded, provides "a new and invincible argument for the being of God, being a direct and positive proof that an immaterial living mind doth inform and actuate the dead matter." 35 The witch craze, which was arguably the chief social problem of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,... | |
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This would be a new and invincible argument for the being of God ; being a direct and positive proof that an immaterial living mind doth inform and actuate the dead matter, and support the frame of the world. 