 | Michael Faraday - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...what thought remains on which to hang the imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces ? A mind just entering on the subject may consider it...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ? Before concluding these speculations I will refer to a few of the important differences between the... | |
 | 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 950
...imagine, that matter independent of the powers. Now the powers we know and recognize in every phenomena of the creation, the abstract matter in none ; why...ignorant, which we cannot conceive, and for which iliere is no philosophical necessity? Before concluding these speculations I will refer to a few of... | |
 | 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 766
...imagine that matter independent of the powers. Now the powers we know and recognise in all phenomena of the creation, the abstract matter in none ; why then assume the existence ofthat of which we are ignorant, which we cannot conceive, and for which there is no philosophical... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...to think of or imagine that matter independent of the powers. Now, the powers we know and recognise in every phenomenon of the creation, the abstract...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ? " Before concluding these speculations I will refer to a few of the important differences between... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...Now, the powers we know and recognise in every phenomena of the creation, the abstract matter in one; why, then, assume the existence of that of which we...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ? Before concluding these speculations, I will refer to a few of the important differences between... | |
 | John Dobree Dalgairns - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...to think of or imagine that matter independent of the powers. Now the powers we know and recognise in every phenomenon of the creation, the abstract...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ?" A more explicit testimony is not wanted, else I might go on to quote such an authority* as the Master... | |
 | Alexander Penrose Forbes - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...the imagination of an a, independent of the acknowledged forces. Now the powers we know and recognise in every phenomenon of the creation, the abstract...and for which there is no philosophical necessity?" All which we know of are certain " forces." What is the unity which holds them together we know not.... | |
 | What - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...our perception and knowledge of the atom, and even our fancy, is limited to ideas of its powers. .... A mind just entering on the subject may consider it...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ? " Before concluding these speculations, I will refer to a few of the important differences between... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...consider it difficult to think of the powers of matter independent of a separate something to be called matter ; but it is certainly far more difficult, and...of which we are ignorant, which we cannot conceive [Faraday means cannot imagine}, and for which there is no philosophical necessity ? " According to... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...difficult to think of the powers of matter independent of a separate something to be called the natter, but it is certainly far more difficult, and indeed...and for which there is no philosophical necessity? .... Doubtless the centers of force vary in their distance one from another, but that which is truly... | |
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A mind just entering on the subject may consider it difficult to think of the powers of matter independent of a separate something to be called the matter, but it is certainly far more difficult, and indeed impossible, to think of or imagine that matter... 
