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... ether- waves ' which are regarded universally as the vehicle even unverifiable hypotheses may be great aids to the progress of knowledge , may have a right to be believed with a high degree of as- surance . " ( See article , " Darwin ...
... ether- waves ' which are regarded universally as the vehicle even unverifiable hypotheses may be great aids to the progress of knowledge , may have a right to be believed with a high degree of as- surance . " ( See article , " Darwin ...
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... ether , why may not the theist , with equal justi- fication , infer from the kosmic phenomena , that he studies , the hypothesis of an invisible , infinite Cre- ator and Guardian ; and if the one hypothesis is not 1 to be declared a ...
... ether , why may not the theist , with equal justi- fication , infer from the kosmic phenomena , that he studies , the hypothesis of an invisible , infinite Cre- ator and Guardian ; and if the one hypothesis is not 1 to be declared a ...
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... ether , which might serve as the vehicle of the luminous waves . This ether , it is believed , surrounds every particle , penetrates every body , fills all space . The hardest iron is not impervious to it . The most complete atmospheric ...
... ether , which might serve as the vehicle of the luminous waves . This ether , it is believed , surrounds every particle , penetrates every body , fills all space . The hardest iron is not impervious to it . The most complete atmospheric ...
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... ether , ordinary matter forms but a very trifling part of the universe . For , even if we disregard the ether diffused through ordinary matter and interplanetary spaces , and sup- pose the whole of our solar system filled with ordi ...
... ether , ordinary matter forms but a very trifling part of the universe . For , even if we disregard the ether diffused through ordinary matter and interplanetary spaces , and sup- pose the whole of our solar system filled with ordi ...
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... ether all the phenomena of optics are accounted for with a fullness , and clearness , and conclusiveness , which leave no desire of the intel- lect unfulfilled . " But if science may accept the perception and satisfaction of the reason ...
... ether all the phenomena of optics are accounted for with a fullness , and clearness , and conclusiveness , which leave no desire of the intel- lect unfulfilled . " But if science may accept the perception and satisfaction of the reason ...
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Page 138 - 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...
Page 69 - 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 199 - 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 the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Page 196 - The scientific imagination, which is here authoritative, demands, as the origin and cause of a series of ether-waves, a particle of vibrating matter . quite as definite, though it may be excessively minute, as that which gives origin to a musical sound.
Page 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state.
Page 171 - There is no such science. There are no rules on these subjects so fixed and invariable as that their aggregate constitutes a science. I believe I have recently ran over twenty volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew, of Virginia, and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with the other all the doubtful propositions, little would be left On Monday we propose to take up Kendall and Noah.