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Page 7 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into...
Page 7 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Page 12 - We opened this book with surprise, a surprise grounded upon the name and fame of the author, and upon the daring affirmative stand which he takes in, limine; we close it with a deeplaid wonder, and with an anxious wish that it may not appeal in vain to a profession which may gain so much, both morally, intellectually and scientifically, from the priceless truths contained in its pages.
Page 12 - ... and explanation adopted by Swedenborg be once understood, the anatomist and physiologist will acquire more information, and obtain a more comprehensive view of the human body, and its relation to a higher sphere, than from any single book ever published ; nay, we may add, than from all the books which have been written (especially in modern times) on physiology, or, as it has been lately named, transcendental anatomy.
Page 22 - Moses* carry with them internal evidence, not of one sole, connected, and original composition, but of a compilation, by an inspired writer, from earlier annals. ' The genealogical tables and family records of various tribes, that are found embodied in the Pentateuch, bear the appearance of documents copied from written archives. They display no trait which might lead us to ascribe their production to the dictates of immediate revelation, nor are we any where informed that such in reality was their...
Page 10 - ... rotation occupied when his atmosphere extended to that point ; and this also M. Comte has, by the necessary calculations, ascertained to be true, within certain small limits of error. There is thus, in Laplace's theory, nothing hypothetical : it is an example of legitimate reasoning from a present effect to its past cause, according to the known laws of that cause ; it assumes nothing more than that objects which really exist, obey the laws which are known to be obeyed by all terrestrial objects...
Page 2 - You must accept the whole or reject the whole ; reduction does but enfeeble, and amputation mutilate. It is trifling to receive all but something which is as integral as any other portion ; and, on the other hand, it is a solemn thing to receive any part, for, before you know where you are, you may be carried on by a stern logical necessity to accept the whole.
Page 7 - ... should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 14 - ... also are the origins of diseases : for the origins of diseases in common are intemperances, luxuries of various kinds, pleasures merely corporeal, also envyings, hatreds, revenges, lasciviousness, and the like, which destroy the interiors of man, and when these are destroyed, the exteriors suffer, and draw man into disease, and thus into death...
Page 3 - A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.