 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 480 страници
...anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me eo great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has,...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 ;... | |
 | 1883 - 810 страници
...dictum of "common-sense:" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose "absurdity is so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition —... | |
 | 1897 - 840 страници
...vacuum, without 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...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 ;... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 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 must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1865 - 530 страници
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." not essential to the solution of that problem that either the exact nature of the... | |
 | Paul Janet - 1866 - 216 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 ;... | |
 | 1874 - 802 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." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural... | |
 | 1868 - 346 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action nnd 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 ;... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this 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;... | |
 | 1882 - 662 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 * Published, like the Astronomy, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. fall into it. Gravity... | |
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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,... 
