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 40
... into insensible particles of different size , figure , and motion , therefore these particles must be preexistent to all bodies in the world ? For it is plain II . that there is now an universal lump of 40 ORIGINES SACRE .
... into insensible particles of different size , figure , and motion , therefore these particles must be preexistent to all bodies in the world ? For it is plain II . that there is now an universal lump of 40 ORIGINES SACRE .
Page 41
... motion . But what then ? Doth this prove , that because parti- cular bodies do now emerge out of the various configu- ration and motion of insensible particles of that matter which exists in the world , that therefore this whole matter ...
... motion . But what then ? Doth this prove , that because parti- cular bodies do now emerge out of the various configu- ration and motion of insensible particles of that matter which exists in the world , that therefore this whole matter ...
Page 43
... motion of these atoms in the infinite space , and the manner of the concretion of bodies by the concourse of these atoms . 1. I begin with their motion ; which Epicurus at- tributes to his atoms without any hesitation , and yet XIV ...
... motion of these atoms in the infinite space , and the manner of the concretion of bodies by the concourse of these atoms . 1. I begin with their motion ; which Epicurus at- tributes to his atoms without any hesitation , and yet XIV ...
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... motion ; which argues his whole hypothesis to be extremely precarious . The thing then ( which he must assume as his main principle , without which all his other do nothing ) is , that motion doth inseparably be- long to the least atom ...
... motion ; which argues his whole hypothesis to be extremely precarious . The thing then ( which he must assume as his main principle , without which all his other do nothing ) is , that motion doth inseparably be- long to the least atom ...
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... motion doth prove an impos- v . Ep . de sibility of motion in an infinite empty space . Might presso a not Epicurus then have saved his credit better by sit- translato , ting down with the opinions of his forefathers , than tom . iii.Op ...
... motion doth prove an impos- v . Ep . de sibility of motion in an infinite empty space . Might presso a not Epicurus then have saved his credit better by sit- translato , ting down with the opinions of his forefathers , than tom . iii.Op ...
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