 ... 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...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 3831760Full view - About this book
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...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an Agent acting conftantly according to certain Laws ; but whether this Agent...immaterial, I have left to the Confideration of my Readers, Your fourth Affertion, that the World could not be formed by innate Gravity alone, you confirm by three... | |
 | 1814 - 550 pages
...and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that "gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." This agent and its mode of action it is the object of Colden's... | |
 | 1856 - 482 pages
...another, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial he leaves to the consideration of his readers. This is the onward looking thought of one, who by his... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 940 pages
...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." * " The immense void betwixt the celestial bodies has with great impropriety... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 662 pages
...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws. But whether this agent be material, or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." It is evident, then, that he considered gravity to be an effect. It is... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 574 pages
...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Philologists - 1842 - 474 pages
...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 - 1842 - 896 pages
...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. 70 arguments. But, in your first... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1904 - 724 pages
...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." If the action of the sun on the earth were a pulling or attracting action,... | |
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