 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 454 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 ; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 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... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 414 sivua
...brings us nearer to the First Cause, and is on that account highly to be valued ;' — and that ' the business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes...come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical :' — but we can go much further, and declare, still with Newton, that ' this beautiful... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 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,... | |
 | 1864 - 922 sivua
...The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without framing hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical ; " and the following maxim is found in Cote's preface to Newton's Principia : " Caustic... | |
 | 1867 - 524 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 ; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and suchlike... | |
 | Henry Wentworth Acland - 1868 - 58 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.' To discuss this simple phrase, and to expand it into its full significance, would be to... | |
 | British Medical Association, William Stokes - 1869 - 326 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.' To discuss this simple phrase, and to expand it into its full significance, would be to... | |
 | 1870 - 588 sivua
...made in philosophy brings us nearer to the First Cause? — and that the business of natural science is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause?" There is, further, an element of selfcontradiction in this positive, as in all atheistic schemes. It... | |
 | 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... | |
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Whereas 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; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of... 
