 | George Adams - 1812 - 586 pages
...seems to be universal, till it is corrected by instruction, or by philosophical speculation. Those who have any tincture of education, are not now in danger of being held by it; but yet they find at first a reluctance to believe that there are antipodes, that the earth is spherical, and turns round... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 pages
...seems to be universal, till it is corrected by instruction, or by philosophical speculation. Those who have any tincture of education are not now in danger of being held by it, but they find at first a reluctance to believe that there are antipodes ; that the earth is spherical,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 622 pages
...seems to be universal, till it is corrected by instruction, or by philosophical speculation. Those who have any tincture of education are not now in danger of being held by it, but they find at first a reluctance to believe that there are antipodes ; that the earth is spherical,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1839 - 476 pages
...seems to be universal, till it is corrected by instruction, or by philosophical speculation. Those, who have any tincture of education are not now in danger of being held by it, but they find at first a reluctance to believe that there are antipodes ; that the earth is spherical,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 474 pages
...seems to be universal, till it is corrected by instruction, or by philosophical speculation. Those who have any tincture of education are not now in danger of being held by it, but they find at first a reluctance to believe that there are antipodes ; that the earth is spherical,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...opinion seems to be universal, till it is corrected by instruction or by philosophical speculation. Those who have any tincture of education are not now in danger of being held by it, but they find at first a reluctance to believe that there are antipodes ; that the earth is spherical,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1857 - 474 pages
...seems to be universal, till it is corrected by instruction, or by philosophical speculation. Those who have any tincture of education are not now in danger of being held by it, but they find at first a reluctance to believe that there are antipodes; that the earth is spherical, arid... | |
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... the other, or partly in both, is not discerned by sense. Of all the prejudices which philosophy contradicts, I believe there is none so general as that the earth keeps its place unmoved. This opinion seems to be universal, till it is corrected by... 