...the following miscellaneous observations, which may serve as a specimen of the OPINIONS of Newton. The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...to deduce causes from effects till we come to the тегу first cause, which certainly is not mechanical. No more caiues of natural things ought to...

...Efficient Cause. ' The main business of natural ' philosophy? according to Newton's view of the subject, ' is to argue from phenomena, * without feigning hypotheses,...' First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical? It may seem superfluous to argue the validity of that species of evidence which ascertains the character...

...the following miscellaneous observations, which may serve as a specimen of the opinions of Newton : The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...very first cause,, which certainly is not mechanical. Therefore natural effects of the same kind are to be ascribed to the same cause. Those properties of...

...philosopher.—He not only saw the principle, but obeyed it." Yet this great man tells him and the world—" The main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions—Whence is it that nature does nothing in vain ? And whence arises all that order and beauty...

...philosopher.—lie not only saw the principle, but obeyed it." Yet this great man tells him and the world—" The main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chirjly to resolve these and such like questions—Whence is it that nature does nothing in vain ?...

...hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically, and referring other causes to metaphysics ; whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." In his letter to the Hon. Mr. Boyle (Ibid. p. 385), he says, " The truth is, my notions about things...

...occultarum, seu mechanicae, in philosophic experimental! locum non habent." (Newt. Opera, vol. iv. p. 493.) " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses," and when once the inductive philosophy is departed from, and the imagination, instead of fact and observation,...

...traced;" but its object is, as Newton expresses it, " to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which is certainly not mechanical *." SECT. XVI. —" The opinions of Cuviet*' respecting this subject are...

...the following miscellaneous observations, which may serve as a specimen of the OPINIONS of Newton. The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical. No more causes of natural things ought to be admitted than are known to exist, and are sufficient to...

...though we may not be able either to account mechanically for the refraction of light in its coats, or to explain how the image is propagated from the retina...Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain; and lohence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world ? — How came the bodies of animals...