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... heat , or protozoa , to pronounce judgment on the problems of prayer and providence , or the knowability of God , such a man is just as likely to talk nonsense as the minister who denounces Darwinism without having read a tithe of the ...
... heat , or protozoa , to pronounce judgment on the problems of prayer and providence , or the knowability of God , such a man is just as likely to talk nonsense as the minister who denounces Darwinism without having read a tithe of the ...
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... heat passed into magnetic or chemical force . Track the cunning Proteus into his new haunt , and you will find him there undiminished in quantity . This is what experience has suggested and approximately proved . But it has only done so ...
... heat passed into magnetic or chemical force . Track the cunning Proteus into his new haunt , and you will find him there undiminished in quantity . This is what experience has suggested and approximately proved . But it has only done so ...
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... heat , and the sum we recover in another form , such as motion . This discrepancy , in careful experiments , may be very slight . By still greater care it may be made so infinitesimal that in practice it may be disre- garded . But the ...
... heat , and the sum we recover in another form , such as motion . This discrepancy , in careful experiments , may be very slight . By still greater care it may be made so infinitesimal that in practice it may be disre- garded . But the ...
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... heat , and their contraction by cold , is a law so general and intimately connected with the very theory of heat , that it would seem as if a real anomaly to it ought not to be expected . Indeed , for a long time no exception was ...
... heat , and their contraction by cold , is a law so general and intimately connected with the very theory of heat , that it would seem as if a real anomaly to it ought not to be expected . Indeed , for a long time no exception was ...
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... heat , and beyond the extreme violet the phenomena of fluor . escence or photo - chemical action disclose them as chemical force . " The light - giving rays from any object are only a fraction , " says Tyndall , " of the total radia ...
... heat , and beyond the extreme violet the phenomena of fluor . escence or photo - chemical action disclose them as chemical force . " The light - giving rays from any object are only a fraction , " says Tyndall , " of the total radia ...
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Page 128 - 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, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 64 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 201 - For by science I understand all knowledge which rests upon evidence and reasoning of a like character to that which claims our assent to ordinary scientific propositions. And if any one is able to make good the assertion that his theology rests upon valid evidence and sound reasoning, then it appears to me that such theology will take its place as a part of science.
Page 158 - science of political economy.' There is no such science. There are no rules on the subject so fixed and invariable as that their aggregate constitutes a science.
Page 198 - ... us with a conviction that the truth of our hypothesis is certain. No accident could give rise to such an extraordinary coincidence. No false supposition could, after being adjusted to one class of phenomena, exactly represent a different class, where the agreement was unforeseen and uncontemplated.
Page 3 - Science was Faith once; Faith were Science now, Would she but lay her bow and arrows by And arm her with the weapons of the time.
Page 110 - ... an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range, and as far as they reach we will at all hazards push our inquiries. But behind, and above, and around all, the real mystery of this universe lies unsolved, and, as far as we are concerned, is incapable of solution.
Page 56 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Page 173 - Far from these world-wide opinions being arbitrary or conventional products, it is seldom even justifiable to consider their uniformity among distant races as proving communication of any sort. They are doctrines answering in the most forcible way to the plain evidence of men's senses, as interpreted by a fairly consistent and rational primitive philosophy.
Page 153 - Now it is not too much to say that if an optician wanted to sell me an instrument which had all these defects, I should think myself quite justified in blaming his carelessness in the strongest terms, and giving him back his instrument.