 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1699 - 296 pages
...Attraction, in our prefenc acception of the Words, is the fame thing with This 5 'tis an operation or virtue or influence of diftant Bodies upon each other through an empty Interval , without any Effln\>\a or Exhalations or other corporeal Medium to convey and tranfmit it. This Power therefore... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1809 - 450 pages
...in our prefent acception of the words, is the fame thing with this ; it is an, operation, or virtue, or influence of diftant bodies upon each other through...tranfmit it. This power therefore cannot be innate and effential to matter. And, if it be not efTential, it is confequently moft manifeft, fince it doth not... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 580 pages
...acception of the words, is the same thing with this ; 'tis an operation, or virtue, or influence of distant bodies upon each other through an empty interval,...exhalations, or other corporeal medium to convey and transmit it. This power, therefore, cannot be innate and ' essential to matter : and if it be not essential,... | |
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Now, mutual gravitation or attraction, in our present acception of the words, is the same thing with this ; 'tis an operation, or virtue, or influence of distant bodies upon each other through an empty interval, without any effluvia, or exhalations, or... 