 | Religion and science - 1867 - 524 pages
...hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically, and referring other causes to metaphysics. Whereas, 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 mechanical ; and not only to unfold the... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...induction than that given in so few words by Newton in the queries appended to his work on optics : — " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from facts until we come to the first cause, which is certainly not mechanical." Now the method Mr. Warington... | |
 | Henry Wentworth Acland - Medicine - 1868 - 58 pages
...that temper is. It would be difficult more aptly to describe it than by the words of Newton : — ' 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 mechanical.' To discuss this simple phrase,... | |
 | British Medical Association, William Stokes - Historical Card - 1869 - 326 pages
...that temper is. It would be difficult more aptly to describe it than by the words of Newton : — ' 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 mechanical.' To discuss this simple phrase,... | |
 | sir William Withey Gull (1st bart.) - 1870 - 60 pages
...arising out of the mechanical mode by which alone man can work upon material ; but, says Newton,* " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...to deduce causes from effects until we come to the first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." Science may probably never be able to give an account... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - Mind and body - 1875 - 580 pages
...attached to his Optics, where he says that the part of philosophy is ' to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical.' In short, force dissociated from personality and will, must be for ever incomprehensible by us, because... | |
 | Medicine - 1876 - 494 pages
...referring to it, says ; " It would be difficult more aptly to describe it than by the words of Newton : ' The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and deduce canses from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical.'... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1876 - 254 pages
...also are the words of the greatest of scientific authorities—" is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." Now, it is just this path and end that religion pursues. It is true that of late men of science have... | |
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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... 
