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<nowiki>*</nowiki> When read in a fair and unprejudiced spirit, Sir Isaac Newton’s works are an ever ready witness to show how he must have hesitated between gravitation and attraction, impulse and some other ''unknown cause ''to explain the regular course of the planetary motion. But see ''Treatise on Colour ''(Vol. III., question 31.) We are told by Herschell that Newton left with his successors the duty of drawing all the scientific conclusions from his discovery. How modern Science abused the privilege of building its newest theories upon the law of gravitation, may be realised when one remembers how profoundly religious was that great man. | <nowiki>*</nowiki> When read in a fair and unprejudiced spirit, Sir Isaac Newton’s works are an ever ready witness to show how he must have hesitated between gravitation and attraction, impulse and some other ''unknown cause ''to explain the regular course of the planetary motion. But see ''Treatise on Colour ''(Vol. III., question 31.) We are told by Herschell that Newton left with his successors the duty of drawing all the scientific conclusions from his discovery. How modern Science abused the privilege of building its newest theories upon the law of gravitation, may be realised when one remembers how profoundly religious was that great man. | ||
† The materialistic notion that because, in physics real or sensible motion is impossible in pure space or ''vacuum'', therefore, the eternal motion of and in Cosmos (regarded as infinite Space) is a ''fiction'' — only shows once more that such words as “ pure space,” “ pure Being,” “ the Absolute,” etc., of Eastern metaphysics have never been understood in the West. | † The materialistic notion that because, in physics real or sensible motion is impossible in pure space or ''vacuum'', therefore, the eternal {{Style S-Small capitals|motion}} of and in Cosmos (regarded as infinite Space) is a ''fiction'' — only shows once more that such words as “ pure space,” “ pure Being,” “ the Absolute,” etc., of Eastern metaphysics have never been understood in the West. | ||
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