 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1847 - 666 pages
...forces by rbich they art at ii distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflating, refrartng, and inflecting them, but also upon one another, for producing a great part of he phenomena of nature ? For it is well known thot bodies act upon one another, '7 the attractions... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1877 - 534 pages
...great an absurdity" that no competent thinker could " ever fall into it," he despairingly asks : " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance ? .... What I call 'attraction' may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me.... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1883 - 440 pages
...repudiated by him a quarter of a century later, when with a graver wisdom he asked the question : " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance?" (Optics. 2d edition. 1717 : book III, query 31.) A recantation never cited by the kinematist. another... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1884 - 798 pages
...absurdity ; but we hear less frequently that, in his " Optics," the same philosopher subsequently asked " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance?" Not unjustly does the author remark, " There is no mystery in the world of mind that is not fully paralleled... | |
 | Science - 1884 - 828 pages
...absurdity ; but we hear less frequently that, in his " Optics," the same philosopher subsequently asked " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance?" Not unjustly does the author remark, " There is no mystery in the world of mind that is not fully paralleled... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - Christian ethics - 1889 - 394 pages
...in his rashness denounced as an absurdity. " Have not then small particles of bodies," he asked, " certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance ? " We are now all familiar with action at a distance in the influence of the moon on the tides, and... | |
 | United States - 1890 - 612 pages
...who, a quarter of a century later, with riper experience and wisdom, and a broader vision, asked, " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance ?" The physicist says, " No !" He believes it not to be a fact, but only an apparent difficulty. In... | |
 | Apologetics - 1890 - 492 pages
...distance, as to concede to small particles what he could not concede to large ones, namely, " some certain powers, virtues or forces by which they act at a distance." Since Newton, almost every philosopher has speculated upon this very unsatisfactory subject. In 1734... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - Christianity - 1897 - 396 pages
...absurd that no compeLater Views. . r tent thinker could ever fall into it, and despairingly asks, " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance? . . . What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use... | |
 | Bible - 1897 - 840 pages
...declared to be so absurd that no competent thinker could ever fall into it ; and despairingly asks, " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which tliev act at a distance? . . . What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other... | |
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Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena... 
