 | Isaac Newton - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 452 pages
...General Scholium, Newton seems to deny such a conception, writing as he does of God as a being who ' governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all'; but there is no true contradiction. He meant that God was not merely a passive spirit,... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1982 - 380 pages
...could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the Soul of the world, but as Lord over all. . . . Newton was convinced, too, that God was a skilled mathematician and physicist.... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God, iravroKpaTatp, or Universal... | |
 | Charles E. Hummel - Religion - 1986 - 300 pages
...could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God.22 The second sentence... | |
 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - History - 1988 - 406 pages
...prove that an intelligent and powerful Being exists and governs the world, Newton asserted. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion is wont to be called Lord God, or Universal Ruler; for... | |
 | Ruth Salvaggio - Classicism - 1988 - 192 pages
...in the game of domination, all is reduced to slavery, including the body. MICHEL SERRES This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all ... and Deity is the dominion of God not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...God is the soul of the world, even though Newton plainly said the precise opposite. God, Newton said, "governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all": in fact, he dismissed the claim that God is the soul of the world as the work of fancy... | |
 | J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 244 pages
...powerful Being exists who first created and now continues to govern the world, Newton says: This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion is wont to be called Lord God .... or Universal Ruler,... | |
 | Richard Henry Popkin - Philosophy - 1992 - 394 pages
...prove that an intelligent and powerfull Being exists and governs the world, Newton asserted: This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion is wont to be Lord God, . . .or Universal Ruler, for... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 356 pages
...could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God, JiavtoxoaTOOO or Universal... | |
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This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God... 
