 ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world,...  Lives of Eminent Persons - Página 33por Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 571 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Relly Beard - 1868 - 496 páginas
...in order to contradict atheistic views : — "Natural philosophy has it also for its main business to resolve these and such like questions. What is...and whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them ? Whence is it that nature doth nothing in vain,... | |
 | 1868 - 358 páginas
...words of Newton : — 1; The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena with* out feigning hypotheses, 'and to deduce causes from effects,...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." This phrase suggested to one a countless host of loving worshippers, to another a crowd of stern inquirers,... | |
 | British Medical Association, William Stokes - 1869 - 326 páginas
...more aptly to describe it than by the words of Newton : — ' The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical.' To discuss this simple phrase, and to expand it into its full significance, would be to recapitulate... | |
 | sir William Withey Gull (1st bart.) - 1870 - 60 páginas
...which alone man can work upon material ; but, says Newton,* " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects until we come to the first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." Science may probably never be... | |
 | 1870 - 588 páginas
...in philosophy brings us nearer to the First Cause? — and that the business of natural science is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause?" There is, further, an element of selfcontradiction in this positive, as in all atheistic schemes. It... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 476 páginas
...to the doctrines of Natural Theology, and with admissions that the business of physical science is " to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause," and that " every true step made in inductive philosophy is to be highly valued, because it brings us... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 478 páginas
...to the doctrines of Natural Theology, and with admissions that the business of physical science is " to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause," and that " every true step made in inductive philosophy is to be highly valued, because it brings us... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 476 páginas
...the doctrines of Natural Theology, and with admissions that the business of physical science is •" to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause," and that " every true step made in inductive philosophy is to be highly valued, because it brings us... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - 552 páginas
...Natural Philosophy " — these also are the words of the greatest of scientific authorities — " is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." Now it is just this path and end that religion pursues. It is true that of late men of science have... | |
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