...are formed. Sir Isaac Newton thus expresses himself: — " All things considered, it stems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions...

...the ablest of Dalton's predecessors : — ' All things considered,' says Newton, ' it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to...

...analyses of it we can. no more determine what matter is than we can what spirit is. Newton supposed "that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles." This he believed to be true of liquids, and even of gases, as well as solids. In the gas...

...seen in his account of the Vis Inertite, or in the following query at the close of the Optics : i8 " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning...massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such size and figures, and with such properties and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the...

...would seem to have had Lucr. in mind when near the end of his optics, ed. Horsley iv 260, he wrote 'it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid massy hard impenetrable mo >Ue particles, of such sizes and figures and with such other prope and in such proportion to space,...

...Epicurus than is generally conceived. " All things considered," writes Newton, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...impenetrable, moveable particles ; of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end...

...are formed. Sir Isaac Newton thus expresses himself: — "All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with snch other properties, and in such proportions...

...points in the principles of the Epicureans. "All things considered," says Newton, "it seems probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end...

...and also as respects crystallographical form. Newton's expressions are very remarkable. He says, " All these things being considered, it seems probable...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them ; and that the primitive...

...referred to as an authority on the side of the atomist. That philosopher, indeed, considered it probable that " God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles " which never wear or break to pieces, " no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made...