 | Andrew J. Davis - Science - 1996 - 404 pages
...of SUPERFICIAL and VULGAR OBSERVATION, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his senses." But harmonial philosophy sanctions the practice and propriety of appealing to inferior and external... | |
 | 1834 - 788 pages
...our guidance, our support, our preservation ! " Thus," continues he, " the Earth, on which we stand, and which has served for ages as the unshaken foundation...astronomer of its attribute of fixity, and conceived by him as turning swiftly on its centre, and at the same time moving onwards through space with great... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Hypnotism - 1851 - 420 pages
...those of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one, till he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his senses." — Sir John Herschel. "The opinions of men are received according to the ancient belief, and upon... | |
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Thus, the earth on which he stands, and which has served for ages as the unshaken foundation of the firmest structures, either of art or nature, is divested by the astronomer of its attribute of fixity, and conceived by him as turning swiftly on its centre,... 
