 A mind just entering on the subject may consider it difficult to think of the powers of matter independent of a separate something to be called the matter, but it is certainly far more difficult, and indeed impossible, to think of or imagine that matter...  Experimental Researches in Electricity - Page 289by Michael Faraday - 1844 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Meteorology - 1844 - 950 pages
...imagine, that matter independent of the powers. Now the powers we know and recognize in every phenomena of the creation, the abstract matter in none ; why...ignorant, which we cannot conceive, and for which iliere is no philosophical necessity? Before concluding these speculations I will refer to a few of... | |
 | Robert Hare - Bible and spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...Now, the powers we know and recognise in every phenomena of the creation, the abstract matter in one ; why, then, assume the existence of that of which we...I will refer to a few of the important differences betwcen the assumption of atoms consisting merely of centres of force like those of Boscovich, and... | |
 | John Dobree Dalgairns - 1861 - 368 pages
...to think of or imagine that matter independent of the powers. Now the powers we know and recognise in every phenomenon of the creation, the abstract...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ?" A more explicit testimony is not wanted, else I might go on to quote such an authority* as the Master... | |
 | Alexander Penrose Forbes - Anglican Communion - 1868 - 552 pages
...the imagination of an a, independent of the acknowledged forces. Now the powers we know and recognise in every phenomenon of the creation, the abstract...and for which there is no philosophical necessity?" All which we know of are certain " forces." What is the unity which holds them together we know not.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871 - 504 pages
...The facts do not warrant any other conclusion than that what we call matter is continuous. Indeed " a mind just entering on the subject may consider it...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ?" If we must assume at all, let us assume as little as possible. The system of Boscovich is in these... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1875 - 500 pages
...consider it difficult to think of the powers of matter independent of a separate something to be called matter ; but it is certainly far more difficult, and...of which we are ignorant, which we cannot conceive [Faraday means cannot imagine}, and for which there is no philosophical necessity ? " According to... | |
 | Science - 1877 - 652 pages
...difficult to think of the powers of matter independent of a separate something to be called the natter, but it is certainly far more difficult, and indeed...and for which there is no philosophical necessity? .... Doubtless the centers of force vary in their distance one from another, but that which is truly... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1877 - 534 pages
...certainly far more difficult, and indeed impossible, to think of or imagine that matter, inilependent of the powers. Now the powers we know and recognize...and for which there is no philosophical necessity? .... Doubtless the centers of force vary in their distance one from another, but that which is truly... | |
 | Apologetics - 1890 - 492 pages
...entering on the subject may consider it difficult to think of the powers of matter independent of a something to be called the matter ; but it is certainly...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ? " So he suggests that, whilst the centres of force may vary in distance from each other, that which... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - Parapsychology - 1897 - 492 pages
...to think of or imagine that matter independent of the powers. Now the powers we know and recognise in every phenomenon of the creation, the abstract...and for which there is no philosophical necessity ? " It an atom be conceived to be a centre of power, that which is ordinarily referred to under the... | |
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