Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern PhilosophyW. Pickering, 1833 - 222 páginas |
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... and of this chain of causes each accident , action , or phenomenon , is no- thing else than motion , modified by the body through which it passes , and may be regarded as a proximate Efficient cause . * Let 64 OBJECT OF PHILOSOPHY .
... and of this chain of causes each accident , action , or phenomenon , is no- thing else than motion , modified by the body through which it passes , and may be regarded as a proximate Efficient cause . * Let 64 OBJECT OF PHILOSOPHY .
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Isaac Preston Cory. be regarded as a proximate Efficient cause . * Let us take another example of a statical instead of a dynamical nature- If we squeeze a piece of wood in a vice , and have so far squeezed it as to be able to produce no ...
Isaac Preston Cory. be regarded as a proximate Efficient cause . * Let us take another example of a statical instead of a dynamical nature- If we squeeze a piece of wood in a vice , and have so far squeezed it as to be able to produce no ...
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... regarded by Philosophers , as it is among the vul- gar , as the proximate cause of sound ; and the intermediate air was unnoticed and unknown , as necessary for the pro- duction of that effect ; the hammer , the bell , and the ear ...
... regarded by Philosophers , as it is among the vul- gar , as the proximate cause of sound ; and the intermediate air was unnoticed and unknown , as necessary for the pro- duction of that effect ; the hammer , the bell , and the ear ...
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... regarded only as an hypo- thesis , and like every other hypothesis ought to have been subjected to the test of Induction but instead of so testing it , not only with regard to projectiles , but as it relates to other phenomena of bodies ...
... regarded only as an hypo- thesis , and like every other hypothesis ought to have been subjected to the test of Induction but instead of so testing it , not only with regard to projectiles , but as it relates to other phenomena of bodies ...
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... regarded as a vast , incorruptible , and ever circulating God : but through the intervention of this deity , he derives it ultimately from the immoveable first * He does not , that I am aware of , make any distinction between the ...
... regarded as a vast , incorruptible , and ever circulating God : but through the intervention of this deity , he derives it ultimately from the immoveable first * He does not , that I am aware of , make any distinction between the ...
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18th dynasty according Ægyptus Amenoph Amun analogy ancient antecedent appears Armais ascending attributes Bocchoris body Brahma called Causation causes chain Chimæra coincidences colour conceive connexion Damascius Danaus deity Diodorus discovery divine doctrine Egyptian Eratosthenes Ether Eusebius evidently examination Exodus experiments fluid Frag fragments gods Gravity Greek Heathen Hermes Herodotus hypothesis Induction inference inquiry Intellect investigation Israelites Joseph Khem king of Egypt Kneph laws light Manetho material matter Memphite Menes ments metaphysical Mizraim monuments Moris Moses motion nature Nitocris object observed opinion originally Orphic Osiris Osirtesen passage perhaps Phanes Pharaoh phenomena philosophers Phoenix Phthah physical Plato plenum Plutarch present principles Ramesses Ramesses II reign respect says Sesostris Sethos Shepherd kings Shishak signets Siva soul species Suidas supposed Syncellus tablet Theban things Thinite Thoth Thothmos tion traced triad triple truth universe vacuum Vishnu Wilkinson word worship
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Página 140 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Página 61 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Página 121 - The ocean hath his chart, the stars their map, And Knowledge spreads them on her ample lap: But Rome is as the desert, where we steer Stumbling o'er recollections: now we clap Our hands, and cry, " Eureka ! it is clear — " When but some false mirage of ruin rises near.
Página 187 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Página 86 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 121 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Página 26 - Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field ; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
Página 140 - 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...
Página 13 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom.