 It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential...  Swedenborg Library - Page 71847Full view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceiv" able," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, " without the...of something else which is not " material, operate upon, and aflect other matter, without " mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pages
...following passage, in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley, is still more explicit : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...alter your numbers. " In " The last clause of the second position I like very well. It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...following passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pages
...following passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...would take more time to consider of it." And in the third letter he remarks — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...as essential " and inherent to matter. Fray do not ascribe that notion to me. " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without " the...of something else, which is not material, operate " upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must " do, if gravitation, in the sense... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...placed at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 pages
...third letter to Bentley was dated 1693. In that letter, Sir Isaac says, — " it is incon" ceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the "mediation of something else, which is not material, ope" rate upon and affect other matter, without mutual contact, "as it must do, if gravitation be essential... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 236 pages
...depth of his views, but sufficiently alive to the physical inconsistency of rnain* "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the sense of... | |
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