 Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more able by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move the Parts of...  Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 3261835Full view - About this book
 | R. Baine Harris, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies - 2002 - 436 pages
...In the Opticks, Newton advanced the further suggestion that infinite space is the sensorium of God, who, "being in all Places is more able by his Will...are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies" (403). Newton was no pantheist. The world is not the body of God, and he is not composed of the objects... | |
 | Everett Mendelsohn - 2002 - 594 pages
...virtue cannot subsist without substance. Query 31 of the Opticks reads: Being in all Places, [God] is more able by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium, and thereby form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Katharine Park, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 833 pages
...methods of analysis and synthesis. Such knowledge would consist of "the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more...than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies."79 Thus, in revising and extending the scope of inductive reasoning, Newton helped to create... | |
 | Sandra Richter, Lutz Danneberg - 2002 - 488 pages
...einen nichtaristotelischen oder cartesianischen Seelenbegriff: Es sei allein sein Wille, of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more able by his Will to move Bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the Universe,... | |
 | Ivor Leclerc - 2002 - 392 pages
...Instinct of Brutes and Insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more...by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies.' God is necessary as the agent moving the parts of animals since animal bodies are matter, and thus... | |
 | Christopher H. K. Persaud - 2007 - 421 pages
...wings, swimming bladders... can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and. skill of a powerful ever-living agent, who being in all places, is more...thereby to form and reform the parts of the Universe. . . " (Isaac Newton, Opticks, taken from The Ocean of Truth - Joyce McPherson, 1997, pl 16). Homology,... | |
 | Ludwig Neidhart - 399 pages
...eise than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living Agent; who, being in all places, is niore able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless...by our will to move the parts of our own bodies." Man kann in den beiden letzten Zitaten sogar zwei Beweise, nämlich einen kosmologischen (von der Ursächlichkeit... | |
 | 1865 - 318 pages
...overwhelmed with the magnitude of creative wisdom and power. He speaks of God as the " powerful, ever living Agent, who, being in all places, is more able by his...the bodies within his boundless, uniform sensorium, thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our own will to move the parts... | |
 | 232 pages
...mechanical and mathematical terms. Newton still invoked God both as the 'uncaused cause' and as the one "Who being in all Places, is more able by His will to move the bodies with His boundless sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe ... " 67 In... | |
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