 | Henry Wentworth Acland - 1868 - 58 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 páginas
...expressed by Newton in Query 28, attached to his Optics, where he says that the part of philosophy is ' to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the...very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical.' In short, force dissociated from personality and will, must be for ever incomprehensible by us, because... | |
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... 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... 
