The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... those who , by learning , station , and character , ought to be the friends and advocates of all sound and rational acquirements ; to hear the condemnation of physical research , as beset with danger to INTRODUCTION . 5.
... those who , by learning , station , and character , ought to be the friends and advocates of all sound and rational acquirements ; to hear the condemnation of physical research , as beset with danger to INTRODUCTION . 5.
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... sound generalizations of observed phy- sical relations , must be those derived from the care- ful study and comparison of such generalizations previously confirmed in other corresponding in- stances , which will suggest probabilities ...
... sound generalizations of observed phy- sical relations , must be those derived from the care- ful study and comparison of such generalizations previously confirmed in other corresponding in- stances , which will suggest probabilities ...
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... sound has led to a theory for explaining the most perplexed and intricate results disclosed by optical experiments . Two pipes , pitched a little out of unison , sounded together , produce , not a double sound , but beats , that is ...
... sound has led to a theory for explaining the most perplexed and intricate results disclosed by optical experiments . Two pipes , pitched a little out of unison , sounded together , produce , not a double sound , but beats , that is ...
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... sound , ( which is perfectly explained by the theory of vibrations of the air as the cause of sound , ) he demonstrated , not that the undulatory theory explains the phenomena of absorption of light , but that those phenomena , however ...
... sound , ( which is perfectly explained by the theory of vibrations of the air as the cause of sound , ) he demonstrated , not that the undulatory theory explains the phenomena of absorption of light , but that those phenomena , however ...
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... sound in its principle , viz . , that of rea- soning cautiously on the facts , from the known to the unknown , by the guidance of rationally adopted analo- gies . Speculations , which , in accordance with some formerly received views ...
... sound in its principle , viz . , that of rea- soning cautiously on the facts , from the known to the unknown , by the guidance of rationally adopted analo- gies . Speculations , which , in accordance with some formerly received views ...
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