 | John Harris - 1854 - 316 sivua
...Cause? « Though every true step made in this philosophy (physical science) brings us," says Newton, "not immediately to the knowledge of the First Cause,...yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account it is to be highly valued." l It is "always conducting us in that direction, but can never certify... | |
 | 1877 - 796 sivua
...them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence. to himself? And though every true step in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the...yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account it is to be highly valued." FRENCH AND GERMAN.! Critics often institute a comparison between Balzac... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1863 - 344 sivua
...mere mechanical causes and effects, is the Infinite Cause of all. Sj Isaac Newton has truly said, " though every true step made in this philosophy brings...of the First Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it." Let the chain of material causation be lengthened out ever so far, we only feel however at the topmost... | |
 | 1867 - 524 sivua
...into our little sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks. And though every true step made in this philosophy brings...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued." Now, Newton here insists on an axiom as impossible to be evaded as any axiom of mathematical or mechanical... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1868 - 496 sivua
...into our little sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks, and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued." In two other passages of his " Optics" the great astronomer asks and answers questions in such a way... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1879 - 358 sivua
...into our little sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks; and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued." The importance of such a query from such a man, and at the close of such 'demonstrations as he had... | |
 | Castleton - 1881 - 126 sivua
...into our little sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks ; and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued ? " It is thus that Newton speaks of a Supreme Being; and even those, who might dispute the arguments... | |
 | Layman - 1881 - 168 sivua
...sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that in us which perceives and thinks ? And though every step in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the...it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is highly to be valued." — Sir Isaac Newton (*' Opticks, " book iii.). "Two great and fundamental ideas,... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1885 - 264 sivua
...mechanical causes and effects is the Infinite Cause of all. Sir Isaac Newton remarks, " Though every step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately...of the First Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it." Scripture reveals the unity of God. " Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord thy God is one Lord." A little boy being... | |
 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1889 - 604 sivua
...does nothing in vain, and whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? . . . And though every true step made in this philosophy brings...yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account it ia to be highly valued." The CHAIRMAN (Admiral the Right Hon. Sir JOHN DALRYMPLE HAY, Bart., KCB,... | |
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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. 
