Metaphysical Inquiry Into the MethodW. Pickering, 1833 - 222 من الصفحات |
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... and of this chain of causes each accident , action , or phenomenon , is no- thing else than motion , modified by the body through which it passes , and may be regarded as a proximate Efficient cause . * Let 64 OBJECT OF PHILOSOPHY .
... and of this chain of causes each accident , action , or phenomenon , is no- thing else than motion , modified by the body through which it passes , and may be regarded as a proximate Efficient cause . * Let 64 OBJECT OF PHILOSOPHY .
الصفحة 65
Isaac Preston Cory. be regarded as a proximate Efficient cause . * Let us take another example of a statical instead of a dynamical nature— If we squeeze a piece of wood in a vice , and have so far squeezed it as to be able to produce no ...
Isaac Preston Cory. be regarded as a proximate Efficient cause . * Let us take another example of a statical instead of a dynamical nature— If we squeeze a piece of wood in a vice , and have so far squeezed it as to be able to produce no ...
الصفحة 71
... regarded by Philosophers , as it is among the vul- gar , as the proximate cause of sound ; and the intermediate air was unnoticed and unknown , as necessary for the pro- duction of that effect ; the hammer , the bell , and the ear ...
... regarded by Philosophers , as it is among the vul- gar , as the proximate cause of sound ; and the intermediate air was unnoticed and unknown , as necessary for the pro- duction of that effect ; the hammer , the bell , and the ear ...
الصفحة 157
... regarded only as an hypo- thesis , and like every other hypothesis ought to have been subjected to the test of Induction but instead of so testing it , not only with regard to projectiles , but as it relates to other phenomena of bodies ...
... regarded only as an hypo- thesis , and like every other hypothesis ought to have been subjected to the test of Induction but instead of so testing it , not only with regard to projectiles , but as it relates to other phenomena of bodies ...
الصفحة 192
... regarded as a vast , incorruptible , and ever circulating God : but through the intervention of this deity , he derives it ultimately from the immoveable first He does not , that I am aware of , make any distinction between the ...
... regarded as a vast , incorruptible , and ever circulating God : but through the intervention of this deity , he derives it ultimately from the immoveable first He does not , that I am aware of , make any distinction between the ...
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الصفحة 140 - 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 Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
الصفحة 187 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
الصفحة 1 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
الصفحة 90 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
الصفحة 76 - Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field ; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
الصفحة 140 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of...
الصفحة 42 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, ° he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
الصفحة 13 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom.
الصفحة 184 - For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.
الصفحة 46 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.