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
| John Masson - Atomism - 1907 - 494 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...effort somehow exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness,'2 and others speak to the same effect. In a later article,3 not referred to by Martineau,... | |
| John Masson - Atomism - 1907 - 498 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...effort somehow exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness,'2 and others speak to the same effect. In a later article,3 not referred to by Martineau,... | |
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...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...effort somehow exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness,'2 and others speak to the same effect. In a later article,3 not referred to by Martineau,... | |
| Universalism - 1883 - 540 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...rectilinear paths and changed in their velocities if not already in motion, that it is in consel" Fleming's Vocabulary of Philosophy, p. 380. quence of... | |
| Henry Allon - 1882 - 594 pages
...world, and compels us to beliere that whenever we sec 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,f not referred to by Martineau, Herschel... | |
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