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Page 665
He therefore founds his disquisition upon the principle , purely mechanical , that two bodies at a distance . can act ... without any central body : a circumstance which is totally inconsistent with the principles of gravi- tation .
He therefore founds his disquisition upon the principle , purely mechanical , that two bodies at a distance . can act ... without any central body : a circumstance which is totally inconsistent with the principles of gravi- tation .
Page 670
dissuaded , gave occasion for his lordship's full appearance before the public as a philosopher , in his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion , in which he set himself to oppose the opinions of Hume .
dissuaded , gave occasion for his lordship's full appearance before the public as a philosopher , in his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion , in which he set himself to oppose the opinions of Hume .
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The investigation of the motion of a planet , the changes of its motion , and the causes of those changes , is a process which depends upon the same general principles of reasoning , and is carried on by the aid of the same subsidiary ...
The investigation of the motion of a planet , the changes of its motion , and the causes of those changes , is a process which depends upon the same general principles of reasoning , and is carried on by the aid of the same subsidiary ...
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