 That it is our own immediate consciousness of effort when we exert force to put matter in motion, or to oppose and neutralize force, which gives us this internal conviction of power and causation so far as it refers to the material world, and compels...  Astronomy - Page 221by sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833Full view - About this book
 | James Martineau - Materialism - 1878 - 188 pages
...conviction of power and causation so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion...exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness."* With the tone of this memorable statement it is interesting to compare the feeling of one who, owning... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - Ethics - 1879 - 520 pages
...it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion ... it is in consequence of such an effort,...exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness.' (Astronomy, lothEd., sec. 439. ) Dubois Reymond makes a similar statement, deriving the principle from... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - Ethics - 1879 - 520 pages
...refer.'; to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion ... it is in consequence of such, an effort,...exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness.' (Astronomy, lOthEd., sec. 439.) Dubois Reymond makes a similar statement, deriving the principle from... | |
 | Joseph Cook - Conscience - 187? - 170 pages
...conviction of power and causation so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion...exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness. All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised into the air and quietly abandoned, descend to... | |
 | John Masson - Atomism - 1884 - 292 pages
...world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion ... or deflected if already in motion, it is in consequence of such...exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness,' * and others speak to the same effect. In a later article, 2 not referred to by Martineau, Herschel... | |
 | Richard Heber Newton - Apologetics - 1886 - 360 pages
...conviction of power and causation, so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or * The Christian Register: Sept. 28, 1882. deflected from their rectilinear paths and changed in their... | |
 | James Martineau - Theology - 1891 - 652 pages
...conviction of power and causation so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion...though not accompanied with our consciousness.''^ With the tone of this memorable statement it is interesting to compare the feeling of one who, owning... | |
 | Isaac Kaufman Funk - Sermons - 1895 - 1030 pages
...conviction of power and causation so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion...consequence of such an effort somehow exerted, though not «ccompanied with our consciousness. All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised into the... | |
 | James Drummond, Charles Barnes Upton - 1902 - 542 pages
...conviction of power and causation so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion...exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness." 1 At the close of an interesting sketch of Dr. Martineau's life by the late Prof. CC Everett, there... | |
 | Charles Barnes Upton - Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance) - 1905 - 292 pages
...conviction of power and causation so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion...exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness." 1 At the close of an interesting sketch of Dr. Martineau's life by the late Prof. CC Everett, there... | |
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