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" ... 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 us to believe... "
A Treatise on Astronomy - Page 222
by John Frederick William Herschel - 1834 - 396 pages
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Outlines of Astronomy

John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear...should communicate motion to a stone, with which it is demonslrably not in contact. (440.) All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised into the air...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1849 - 788 pages
...objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear paths, or changed from their velocities, if already in motion, it is in consequence...exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness." The Late Profestor Butler. 57 mit the perfect form of church polity, which we hare inherited, exists...
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miss martineau & her master

j. stevenson bushnan, m.d. - 1851 - 206 pages
...the material world, and compels us to believe, that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear...should communicate motion to a stone with which it is demonstrably not in contact." ("A Treatise on Astronomy." Pp. 232-3.) In a note on this passage, Sir...
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Outlines of Astronomy

John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1851 - 706 pages
...to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear...exerted with success through an interposed space, ia no more difficult to conceive, than that our hand should communicate motion to a stone, with which...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Volume 25

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1871 - 396 pages
...objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from • Outlines of Autonomy, 1849, § 439. their rectilinear paths and changed in their velocities...space, is no more difficult to conceive than that our own hand should communicate motion to a stone, with which it is demonstrably not in contact." "All...
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Outlines of Astronomy

John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1857 - 586 pages
...to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear...in motion, it is in consequence of such an EFFORT somvliow exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness. That such an effort should be exerted...
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Outlines of astronomy

sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - Astronomy - 1858 - 790 pages
...to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear...exerted with success through an interposed space, is no doubt difficult to conceive. But the difficulty is no way alleviated by the interposition of any kind...
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The Emotions and the Will

Alexander Bain - Consciousness - 1859 - 702 pages
...to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear...should communicate motion to a stone, with which it is demonstrably not in contact. ' All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised into the air and...
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Outlines of Astronomy

John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1861 - 588 pages
...the material world, and compels us to believe that, whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear paths and changed in tfyeir velocities if already in motion, it is .in consequence of such an EFFORT somehow exerted, though...
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The Emotions and the Will

Alexander Bain - Emotions - 1865 - 660 pages
...to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear...through an interposed space, is no more difficult to » 'Soo Brown On Catai and Effect — a work of great acuteneas and subtlety of reasoning on some points,...
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