...that our hand should communicate motion to a stone with which it is demonstrable/ not in contact. « All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised...existing somewhere, though beyond our power to trace,' &c. — Pp. 232, 233. Passing over the remarks on Dr Brown's work, let us attend for a moment to the...

...Herschel has not hesitated to say, that " it is but reasonable to regard the force of gravitation as the direct or indirect result of a consciousness, and a Will existing somewhere."* And even if we cannot assume that force, in all its forms, is due to the direct working of the Creator,...

...the proposition (No. 371) that "all bodies with which we are acquainted descend to the earth, and are urged thereto by a force or effort the direct or indirect result of a consciousness or a will, which force we name gravity." But we arrive at this notion through the observation of the...

...our hand should communicate motion to a stone, with which it is demonslrably not in contact. (440.) All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised...are therefore urged thereto by a force or effort, which it is but reasonable to regard as the direct or indirect result of a consciousness and awill...

...eriftirt, rcenn дШф »tir шф1 »ermö= gen u)n auejufcürcn: btefe Äraft benennen wir @ф roeré." „All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised into the air and quietly abandonned, descend to the earth's surface in lines perpendicular to it. They are therefore urged thereto...

...been confounded. " ' All bodies with which we are acTHE LONG BANGE AND VERTICAL FIEE. 107 quainted, when raised into the air and quietly abandoned, descend...are therefore urged thereto by a force or effort, which we term gravity, and whose tendency or direction, as universal experience teaches, is towards...

...and the paths of projectiles have been confounded. lOG THE LONG RANGE AND VERTICAL FIIIE. quanted, when raised into the air and quietly abandoned, descend...perpendicular to it. They are therefore urged thereto hy a force or effort, which we term gravity, and whose tendency or direction, as universal experience...

...been confounded. " • All bodies with which we are acTHE LONG BAHGE AND VEETIOAL FIBE. 107 quainted, when raised into the air and quietly abandoned, descend...earth's surface in lines perpendicular to it. They ire therefore urged thereto by a force or effort, which we term gravity, and whose tendency or direction,...

...beg the reader's most careful and thoughtful attention, and to draw his own inference therefrom. " All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised...into the air and quietly abandoned, descend to the earth in lines perpendicular to it But if we cast a body obliquely into the air, this tendency, though...

...a fact, but are utterly incapable of analysing it as a process. (440.) All bodies with which we arc acquainted, when raised into the air and quietly abandoned,...are therefore urged thereto by a force or effort, which it is but reasonable to regard as the direct or indirect result of a consciousness and a will...