Energy in Nature: Being, with Some Additions, the Substance of a Course of Six Lectures Upon the Forces of Nature and Their Mutual Relations. Delivered Under the Auspices of the Gilchrist Educational Trust |
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Page 210 - In all phenomena the more closely they are investigated the more are we convinced that, humanly speaking, neither matter nor force can be created or annihilated, and that an essential cause is unattainable. — Causation is the will. Creation the act, of God.
Page 54 - ... from the solid to the liquid or from the liquid to the gaseous state...
Page 38 - It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Page 61 - ... from eternity, and that a time will come when it will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning in which the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with the power of gravitation ; and we are led to look to an end in which the whole Universe will be one equally heated inert mass, and from which everything like life, or motion, or beauty, will have utterly gone away.
Page 205 - The law of conservation rigidly excludes both creation and annihilation. Waves may change to ripples and ripples to waves — magnitude may be substituted for number and number for magnitude — asteroids may aggregate to suns, suns may resolve themselves into florae and faunae, and none and faunae melt in air — the flux of power is eternally the same.
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