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" Whereas 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... "
Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy - Page 64
1832
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumes 18-19

Books - 1837 - 556 pages
...with the pathology of disease. We may apply to medicine what Newton says of natural philosophy : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce causes from effects." There are some amongst ourselves, we regret to say,...
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 18

John George Cochrane - 1837 - 548 pages
...with the pathology of disease. We may apply to medicine what Newton says of natural philosophy : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce causes from effects." There are some amongst ourselves, we regret to say,...
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Natural Theology: The Arguments of Paley, Brougham, and the Bridgewater ...

George Ensor - Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation - 1838 - 638 pages
...valued ;" — and that " the business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical;" — but we can go much further, and declare, still with Newton, that "this beautiful system could have...
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The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive ...

Baden Powell - Natural theology - 1838 - 352 pages
...also before said, that " the main business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical f." And again, that from observing the order of the visible world, and so inferring creative intelligence,...
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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Volume 2

William Whewell - Science - 1840 - 606 pages
...general ones, till the argument end in the most general." And in like manner in another Query f : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the First Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." 3. Newton appears to have had...
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The chart and scale of truth, by which to find the cause of error

Edward Tatham - 1840 - 810 pages
...even if mistaken in his celestial forces securely trod in the exercise of philosophy and religion : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not material." — Newton's Optics, p. 343....
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 21

Theology - 1864 - 940 pages
...discoveries, says: "We are always meeting powers which surpass mere mechanism." Newton himself says: " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without framing hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which...
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Indications of the Creator: Extracts, Bearing Upon Theology, from the ...

William Whewell - Natural theology - 1845 - 208 pages
...valued ; " — and that " the business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical:" — but we can go much further, and declare, still with 8 170 PALjETIOLOGY. Newton, that " this beautiful...
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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Volume 2

William Whewell - History - 1847 - 716 pages
...another Query .f. : "The main business of natural philo* Opiiekn, Qu. 31, near the end. t Qu. 2fi. sophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the First Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." 3. Newton appears to have had...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 7

Baptists - 1852 - 1080 pages
...incline it to be otherwise refracted than after the usual manner. The first two may therefore be catted the sides of unusual refraction. We cannot better...philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,and to deduce causes from effects until we come to the very First Cause, which certainly...
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