...only quoted partially. ' It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter Newton s Opinion of it. 29 ' should, without the mediation of something else which...material, operate on and affect other matter, without ' contact, as it must if gravitation in the sense of ' Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. And...

...applicable to all kinds of force between the several parts of matter, whether atoms or larger masses : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...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...

...counsel and dominion ot an intelligent and powerful Being ;" and in his third letter to Bentley : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter, should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact ;" La Place supposed the velocity of gravitating...

...instantaneously control all worlds and all atoms, if it were only a physical force Î " It is," says Newton, " inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...material, operate on and affect other matter without contact." Assume that there is a God, and you assign a sufficient reason for it. Such assumption is...

...of rest, but of intense activity. * Newton's mystical statement in his letters to Dr. Bentley — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something file which is not material, operate on other matter " — is a proposition virtually unthinkable. Could...

...he said, " I have not, as yet, been able to deduce, and I frame no hypothesis/' And he also said : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, an it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of...

...faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To a friend he wrote : " It is inconceivable that innate brute matter should without the mediation of something else which is not material operate on and effect other matter, without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,...

...his mind is indicated by the following passage, taken from a letter written by him to Bentley : — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus...

...sentence from Newton's third letter to Bentley : "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute [inert] matter should, without the mediation of something else which is not material [ie, without an ethereal medium], operate upon and affect other matter, without material contact, as...

...transmits all the radiant forces. Newton held a similar view to this. In his letter to Bentley he says, " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus...