...placed at a distance from each other without any intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...which is not material, operate upon, and affect other i See An Antwer to Lnrd Kamts'l Kxlny nn Motion; by John Stewait, MI). matter without mutual contact,...

...intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without tlio mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon, and affect other 1 Sqe AH Aruteer to Lord Kamet't Etiny on Motion ; by John Stewart, MI>. matter without mutual contact,...

...mine.] And again, 'tis unconceivable, y' inanimate brute matter should (without a divine impression) operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must, if gravitation be essential and inherent in it. " (3.) But then if gravitation cannot be essential...

...diffused through the space between the sun and the planets, as a mediate cause ; affirming that, f ' It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. 3 ' He even pronounces it " so great an absurdity/' that he cannot believe that any man, " who in philosophical...

...phenomena of gravitation. " It is inconceivable," said Newton, in one of his letters to Dr. Bentley,* " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another,...

...assumption of Sir Isaac Newton, and presented by this great philosopher as a primary intuition : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact." The opposite supposition he affirms to be " too great an absurdity" to be believed by any one " who,...

...great Newton himself was carried away by this very assumption of the Cartesians, since he deemed it inconceivable, "that inanimate brute matter should,...upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that a body may act on another,...

...phenomena of gravitation. "It is inconceivable," said Newton, in one of his letters to Dr. Bentley,* "that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on...

...great Newton himself was carried away by this very assumption of the Cartesians, since he deemed it inconceivable, "that inanimate brute matter should,...something else which is not material, operate upon, and aifect other matter, without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...

...he supposed the planetary bodies to be immersed. But the following passage is still more decisive. "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason...