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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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... Solids changed to gases , molar motion to molecular mo- tion , force of heat passed into magnetic or chemical force . Track the cunning Proteus into his new haunt , and you will find him there undiminished in THE CLAIM OF SCIENCE . 85.
... Solids changed to gases , molar motion to molecular mo- tion , force of heat passed into magnetic or chemical force . Track the cunning Proteus into his new haunt , and you will find him there undiminished in THE CLAIM OF SCIENCE . 85.
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... heat , and the sum we recover in another form , such as motion . This discrepance , in careful experiments , may be very slight . By still greater care it may be made so infinitesimal that in practice it may be disregarded . But the ...
... heat , and the sum we recover in another form , such as motion . This discrepance , in careful experiments , may be very slight . By still greater care it may be made so infinitesimal that in practice it may be disregarded . But the ...
Page 104
... 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 ob ...
... 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 ob ...
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... truths which they are not compe- tent to grasp . Science deals with material masses , their relations of heat , color , weight , and their changes of form , bulk , place , quality , 116 PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE .
... truths which they are not compe- tent to grasp . Science deals with material masses , their relations of heat , color , weight , and their changes of form , bulk , place , quality , 116 PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE .
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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.