 All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space,...  The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History - Page 429by William Whewell - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1864 - 780 pages
...Epicurus than is generally conceived. " All things considered," writes Newton, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...impenetrable, moveable particles ; of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1867 - 1006 pages
...are formed. Sir Isaac Newton thus expresses himself: — "All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with snch other properties, and in such proportions... | |
 | What - 1869 - 220 pages
...points in the principles of the Epicureans. "All things considered," says Newton, "it seems probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871 - 504 pages
...referred to as an authority on the side of the atomist. That philosopher, indeed, considered it probable that " God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles " which never wear or break to pieces, " no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made... | |
 | William Kelly - Bible - 1872 - 520 pages
...countenance from the word of God. What scripture says is that in the beginning God created " the heaven • "It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moTeable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
 | George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1873 - 752 pages
...phenomena, and also as respects crystallographical form. Newton's expressions are very remarkable. lie says, "All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the begyming, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles of such sizes and figures,... | |
 | Medicine - 1874 - 752 pages
...are unchanged. " Newton," says Munro,(a) " would seem to have had Lucretius in mind when he wrote " it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, . . . and that these primitive particles are incomparably harder than any porous... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - 1874 - 352 pages
...close of the eighteenth century. " All things considered," says Sir Isaac Newton, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - Cumberland (England) - 1874 - 374 pages
...close of the eighteenth century. " All thmgs considered," says Sir Isaac Newton, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to... | |
 | Christianity - 1875 - 620 pages
...may give the general principle in Newton's own words : ' All things con' sidered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, ' formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles, ' of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and ' in such proportions to space,... | |
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