Origines Sacrae Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author : Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2University Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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Page 10
... particles of matter dépa Sopwòn Kai пVEνμaτwon , a dark and blustering wind . And how suitable this explication of the origin of things , from the motion of fluid matter , is to the history of nature , appears by those many experiments ...
... particles of matter dépa Sopwòn Kai пVEνμaτwon , a dark and blustering wind . And how suitable this explication of the origin of things , from the motion of fluid matter , is to the history of nature , appears by those many experiments ...
Page 35
... particles of matter may give a tolerable account of many appearances of nature , that therefore there should be nothing else but matter and motion in the world , and that the origin of the uni- verse should be from no wiser principle ...
... particles of matter may give a tolerable account of many appearances of nature , that therefore there should be nothing else but matter and motion in the world , and that the origin of the uni- verse should be from no wiser principle ...
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... particles of bodies ; much more those which by their fortuitous concourse gave being to the world , ) and that is , if something evident to sense doth apparently prove it , which is his way of proving a vacuity in nature from motion ...
... particles of bodies ; much more those which by their fortuitous concourse gave being to the world , ) and that is , if something evident to sense doth apparently prove it , which is his way of proving a vacuity in nature from motion ...
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... particles did casually produce these bodies ? Nay , doth it at all follow , that because bodies upon their resolu- tion do fall into insensible particles of different size , figure , and motion , therefore these particles must be ...
... particles did casually produce these bodies ? Nay , doth it at all follow , that because bodies upon their resolu- tion do fall into insensible particles of different size , figure , and motion , therefore these particles must be ...
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... particles arise , and whither they return on the dissolution of bodies ; and all these va- rious corpuscles may be of the same uniform substance , only with the alteration of size , shape , and motion . But what then ? Doth this prove ...
... particles arise , and whither they return on the dissolution of bodies ; and all these va- rious corpuscles may be of the same uniform substance , only with the alteration of size , shape , and motion . But what then ? Doth this prove ...
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