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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 ...
Page 114
... 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 , 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 ...
Page 140
... ether , seems inconsistent with the instant , or almost instant , action of gravitation through the greatest distances . The velocity of light through the ether , though exceedingly swift , yet occupies quite an appreciable time ...
... ether , seems inconsistent with the instant , or almost instant , action of gravitation through the greatest distances . The velocity of light through the ether , though exceedingly swift , yet occupies quite an appreciable time ...
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... ether - atom , are fully as great as , if not vastly greater than , the intervals of common matter . Subtile , then , as is the hypothesis of an omnipresent ethereal medium , pressing all matter together , the difficulty of action at a ...
... ether - atom , are fully as great as , if not vastly greater than , the intervals of common matter . Subtile , then , as is the hypothesis of an omnipresent ethereal medium , pressing all matter together , the difficulty of action at a ...
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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 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
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 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.