 | B. F. Cocker - Theism - 1875 - 442 pages
...gravitation should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation...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... | |
 | 1875 - 1004 pages
...through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent (acuity of thinking, can ever fall into it." " Before«we... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - Mind and body - 1875 - 580 pages
...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 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... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1875 - 406 pages
...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 philol sophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotea, who was... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1875 - 390 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 pages
...that one body can act upon another at a distance, through 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... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1875 - 392 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1875 - 244 pages
...into being, existed potentially somewhere ; for ex nihiio nihil fit is a maxim, the validity of which no man, who has in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever doubt. The question is not of the existence of a power, adequate to produce all visible effects ; but... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1876 - 252 pages
...gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing...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." Or, if more modern... | |
 | Amyclanus (pseud.) - 1876 - 358 pages
...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 may...other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man that has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it."*... | |
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That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so 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 may be conveyed from one to another,... 
