 Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?  Every Saturday - Страница 3191874Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1876 - 836 страници
...and mind unfolded." The key to the true solution must be found in the words of Lucretius, " Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods;" or, in the saying of Bruno, that "matter is the universal mother who brings forth all things as the... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 страници
...life ? Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that ' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods ? ' or with Bruno, when he declares that Matter is not ' thai mere empty capacity which philosophers... | |
 | 1876 - 778 страници
...Tyndall, " Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius when he affirms that nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods ? " And we are tempted also to inquire how far modern science differs either in its principles or motions... | |
 | Jesse Burgess Thomas - 1877 - 240 страници
...interpreted, means the eternity of matter — and an approval of the language of Lucretius, that "Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods " — what must the common mind naturally infer, if not that the conception of God, as discriminated... | |
 | John Caird - 1880 - 400 страници
...j"vT scientific authority, " to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that ' nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the Gods ! ' or with Bruno when he declares that matter is not ' that mere empty capacity which philosophers... | |
 | Allen Pringle - 1880 - 76 страници
...the Universe embodying the potency of all life. From the time that Lucretius declared that " Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the Gods," and Bruno that matter is the " universal mother who brings forth all things as the fruit of her own... | |
 | Laurentine Hamilton - 1881 - 288 страници
...life? Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that ' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods ; ' or with Bruno, when he declares that ' Matter is not that mere empty capacity which philosophers... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1884 - 676 страници
...things has been evolved. ' If you will apprehend and keep in mind these things, Nature, free at once, and rid of her haughty lords, is seen to do all things...spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods.' ; To meet the objection that his atoms cannot be seen, Lucretius describes a violent storm, and shows... | |
 | Jacob Straub - 1884 - 448 страници
...* Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that, ' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods ? ' or with Bruno, when he declares that nature is not • that mere empty capacity which philosophers... | |
 | 1884 - 934 страници
...virtually a reassertion, as intimated by Prof. Tyndall, of the proposition of Lucretius, that "nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods." Laplace " had no need of that hypothesis," that is, of the intervention of the Divine. Darwin went... | |
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