 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 416 pages
...business of natural philosophy is," he says, (Optics, Qu. 28.) " to argue from phenomena without eigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." " Though every true step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Natural theology - 1835 - 324 pages
...to the doctrines of Natural Theology, and with admissions that the business of physical science is " to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause," and that " every true step made in inductive philosophy is to be highly valued, because it brings us... | |
 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1836 - 420 pages
...with no dangers of this kind. " The business of natural philosophy is," he says, (Optics, Qu. 28.) " to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." " Though every true step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the... | |
 | Natural theology - 1836 - 566 pages
...business of natural philosophy is," he says, (Optics, Qu. 28.) " to argue from phenomena without signing hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." " Though every true step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the... | |
 | Baden Powell - Natural theology - 1838 - 352 pages
...an indication of design. He had also before said, that " the main business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical f." And again, that from observing the order of the visible world, and so inferring creative intelligence,... | |
 | Baden Powell - Natural theology - 1838 - 376 pages
...an indication of design. He had also before said; that " the main business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanicalf." And again, that from observing the order of the visible world, and so inferring creative... | |
 | Edward Tatham - 1840 - 810 pages
...securely trod in the exercise of philosophy and religion : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not material." — Newton's Optics, p. 343. In this middle way, the very learned author of " Ancient extent... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1840 - 606 pages
...the most general." And in like manner in another Query f : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the First Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." 3. Newton appears to have had a horror of the term... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1840 - 606 pages
...and is on that account highly to be valued ;" — and that " the business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the...very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical :" — but we can go much further, and declare, still with Newton, that " this beautiful system could... | |
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... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world,... 
