 | Alexander Maxwell (bookseller.) - 1817 - 240 pages
...into our little sensorium, arc there seen and beheld by that, which in us perceives and thinks. And though every true step made in this philosophy, brings...the First Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued." Newton's Optics, p. 345. Attend also to the conclusion of... | |
 | 1832 - 642 pages
...sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks. And though every step in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the...the First Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is highly to be valued. * * * * And if natural philosophy in all its parts shall at... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...by that which in us perceives and thinks ; and though every true step made in this philosophy bring us not immediately to the knowledge of the First Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued ?" It is thus that Newton speaks of a Supreme Being ; and even... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...by that which in us perceives and thinks ; and though every true step made in this philosophy bring us not immediately to the knowledge of the First Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued ?" It is thus that Newton speaks of a Supreme Being ; and even... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...by that which in us perceives and thinks ; and though every true step made in this philosophy bring us not immediately to the knowledge of the First Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued ?" It is thus that Newton speaks of a Supreme Being ; and even... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1834 - 190 pages
...may be well to fortify this conclusion by two quotations from the latter part of Newton's Optics. " Though every true step made in this philosophy brings...the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued." Again, he writes, " If natural philosophy in all its parts,... | |
 | 1836 - 566 pages
...business of natural philosophy is," he says, (Optics, Qu. 28.) " to argue from phenomena without signing hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till...be valued." The Scholium, or note, which concludes this great work, the Principia, is a well known and most striking evidence on this point, " This beautiful... | |
 | Baden Powell - 1838 - 376 pages
...acknowledgment ; and, in the language of Newton, (understood agreeably to the distinctions before laid down,) "though every true step made in this philosophy brings...the first cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued*." Argument from Design to Intelligence. WE have thus far referred... | |
 | 1839 - 684 pages
...acknowledgment ; and, in the language of Newton, (understood agreeably to the distinctions before laid down,) ' though every true step made in this philosophy brings...the first cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is highly to be valued.' " — pp. 179-182. 02 Interposition : Permanent Laws. " Unless... | |
 | William Whewell - 1841 - 256 pages
...hypotheses, and to deduce cause from effects, till we come to the very first cauae, which is certainly not mechanical." " Though every true step made in...note, which concludes his great work, the Principia, ia a well known and most striking evidence on this point. " This beautiful system of sun, planets,... | |
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And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued. 
