 | James Thompson Bixby - 1889 - 252 pages
...any thing else, by and through wlijch their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Or, if more modern... | |
 | Thomas Hubbard Musick - 1890 - 390 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it."—Works, vol. 4, p. 438. § 165. Faraday says: "I believe I represent the received idea of the... | |
 | Franz Hettinger - 1890 - 388 pages
...undeviating position of their orbits through these laws " (Philos. Natur. Princip., I. iii., Sehol. Gen.). absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly, according to fixed laws." 1 But... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1891 - 530 pages
..."That one body should act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Accord uigly... | |
 | 1895 - 710 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is tome so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1895 - 714 pages
...topic, and speaks more decidedly. The notion of gravity being inherent to matter 'is to me,' he says, 'so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be ca,used by an agent acting... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - 1896 - 308 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking ever fall into it." The same opinion is expressed in Advertisement II. of the 2nd edition of his "... | |
 | 1897 - 814 pages
...thai Dne body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by, and through which their action and force...absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical mailers a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent... | |
 | 1897 - 846 pages
...VAGA. and force may be conveyed from one to anotber, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe DO man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall iuto it.' This sweeping assertion is believed to be substantiated by modern observations of a connection... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 908 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by, and through which their action and force...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a rnmpetent"fnculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Nothing could be stronger than this; and we have... | |
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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 anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... 
