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... illustration in the fact that the only consid- erable treatises upon scientific method , or the prin- ciples of physical inquiry which have been written in the present century , Mill's " Logic of the In- ductive Sciences , " Whewell's ...
... illustration in the fact that the only consid- erable treatises upon scientific method , or the prin- ciples of physical inquiry which have been written in the present century , Mill's " Logic of the In- ductive Sciences , " Whewell's ...
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... illustrations of the enmity of the Roman hierarchy to the progress of physical knowledge . But do any of these facts show a conflict between Religion and Science ? Not one of them . Neither the Roman Church nor any other church is ...
... illustrations of the enmity of the Roman hierarchy to the progress of physical knowledge . But do any of these facts show a conflict between Religion and Science ? Not one of them . Neither the Roman Church nor any other church is ...
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... illustrated by accessible specimens , the man of science must depend upon the reports of travelers , often no more in number than , nor so close in agree- ment as , the Four Evangelists . They bring back reports of glass sponges , and ...
... illustrated by accessible specimens , the man of science must depend upon the reports of travelers , often no more in number than , nor so close in agree- ment as , the Four Evangelists . They bring back reports of glass sponges , and ...
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... illustrations of this in the circle of the sci- ences are countless . If human knowledge had been , as Büchner maintains it is , incapable of attain- ing to any thing supersensual , its attainments would have been comparatively meagre ...
... illustrations of this in the circle of the sci- ences are countless . If human knowledge had been , as Büchner maintains it is , incapable of attain- ing to any thing supersensual , its attainments would have been comparatively meagre ...
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... illustration , although we may be unable to an- swer the question , " What is the value of 7 x added to 5 x ? " 80 long as x remains without an assigned or assignable value , we are absolutely certain that the result will be 12 x ...
... illustration , although we may be unable to an- swer the question , " What is the value of 7 x added to 5 x ? " 80 long as x remains without an assigned or assignable value , we are absolutely certain that the result will be 12 x ...
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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.