 | American essays - 1877 - 804 pages
...subject, he is justified in adopting and emphasizing the noble words of Sir Isaac 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 is certainly not mechanical. And not only to resolve the... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1964 - 513 pages
...the Scriptures. Most eloquent is Newton's statement of the classic argument for the existence of God: 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. . . What is there in places... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1877 - 540 pages
...mechanically, and referring other causes to metaphysics. Where* LED I>hil. Ma-., 1801, vol. xxi, p. 503. as 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." * It has already been noticed... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1982 - 380 pages
...his Opticks (I704) of the classic argument for the existence of God as the framer of the universe: The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first, which certainly is not mechanical. . . . What is there in places almost... | |
 | George Lachmann Mosse, Seymour Drescher, David Warren Sabean, Allan Sharlin - History - 334 pages
...were a part of God's providential design. No doubt this design was mysterious, but it was penetrable: 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... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1985 - 270 pages
...Newton's statement of the classic argument for the existence of God. In his Opticks of 1704 he says: 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 What is there in places almost... | |
 | H. G. Koenigsberger - History - 1986 - 294 pages
...were a part of God's providential design. No doubt this design was mysterious, but it was penetrable: 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... | |
 | H. G. Koenigsberger - History - 1986 - 300 pages
...were a part of God's providential design. No doubt this design was mysterious, but it was penetrable: 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... | |
 | William Whewell - Philosophy - 1989 - 386 pages
...more general ones, till the argument ends in the most general." And in like manner in another Query:2 "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... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham, Roger French - Medical - 1990 - 346 pages
...for explaining all things mechanically', referred 'other causes to Metaphysics'. He insisted that, 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 is certainly not mechanical." Berkeley was intent on exposing... | |
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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... 
