| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 478 sivua
...references to the doctrines of Natural Theology, and with admissions that the business of physical science is " to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause," and that " every true step made in inductive philosophy is to be highly valued, because it brings us... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 476 sivua
...references to the doctrines of Natural Theology, and with admissions that the business of physical science is " to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause," and that " every true step made in inductive philosophy is to be highly valued, because it brings us... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 sivua
...an opinion expressed by Newton in Query 28, attached to his Optics, where he says that the part of philosophy is ' to deduce causes from effects, till...come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical.' In short, force dissociated from personality and will, must be for ever incomprehensible... | |
| 1876 - 494 sivua
...business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and deduce canses from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical.' To discuss this simple phrase and expand it to its full significance, would be to recapitulate... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - 534 sivua
...the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." * It has already been noticed that elasticity has proved a stumblingblock to every kinetic... | |
| Castleton - 1881 - 126 sivua
...query, " The main business of this science is to argue from phenonema, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
| Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1881 - 902 sivua
...the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, — which certain!;/ is not mechanical." * Give to the ambitious kinematic artist his cloud of sand, — or if... | |
| Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1883 - 440 sivua
...the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, — which certainly is not mechanical." * Give to the ambitious kinematic artist his cloud of sand, — or if he prefer the outfit,... | |
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