 | John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 страници
...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 in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Accordingly he... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - 532 страници
...of anything else, by and through which their action and force may 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 faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Or, if more modern... | |
 | 1874 - 812 страници
...of any thing else by and through which their action and force may 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 faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The thesis of... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 страници
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' Upon this passage the author proceeds to remark : — ' And yet not long after... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 444 страници
...without the mediation 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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity mnst be cansed by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws."... | |
 | Dirk Evers - 2000 - 464 страници
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 страници
...would not ascribe innate Gravity to me. . . . that one body may act upon another at a distance ... is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. (Thayer and Randall. l953, p. 54) It is in Book III of the Principia that he gave... | |
 | Colin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater - 1999 - 276 страници
...body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else . . . is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no...who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty for thinking, can ever fall into. Nor did the prediction of quantum theory sit well with Albert Einstein,... | |
 | Myron W. Evans - 2004 - 840 страници
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
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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,... 
