 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1878 - 432 Seiten
...upon it by an external artificer ; by its own intrinsic force and virtue it brings these forms forth. Matter is not the mere naked, empty capacity which...brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb.' Yet it was the science of astronomy which chiefly engrossed Bruno, and at the basis of his astronomical... | |
 | Allen Pringle - 1880 - 76 Seiten
...philosophy of the past ; for modern science and philosophy alike agree that matter is not " that mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her...brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb." As Pope says : — " See thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, ALL matter quick and bursting... | |
 | John Caird - 1880 - 412 Seiten
...when he declares that matter is not ' that mere empty capacdty which philosophers have pictured her, but the universal mother who brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb 1 ' Believing as I do in the continuity of nature, I cannot stop abruptly where our microscopes cease... | |
 | Laurentine Hamilton - 1881 - 288 Seiten
...without the meddling of the gods ; ' or with Bruno, when he declares that ' Matter is not that mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her...brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb? ' The questions here raised are inevitable. They are approaching us with accelerated speed ; and it... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 Seiten
...upon it by an external artificer ; by its own intrinsic force and virtue it brings these forms forth. Matter is not the mere naked, empty capacity which...philosophers have pictured her to be, but the universal 1 "Belfast Address," pp. 19, 20. mother who brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb."... | |
 | Henry Seddall - 1884 - 440 Seiten
...without the meddling of the gods ' ? or with Bruno, when he declares that matter is not 'that mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her...brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb'?" It is clear from the foregoing passage, and indeed from the whole tenor of the address, that Mr. Tyndall,... | |
 | Jacob Straub - 1884 - 448 Seiten
...without the meddling of the gods ? ' or with Bruno, when he declares that nature is not ' that mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her...brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb" (pp. 76, 77). This in effect is submitting, not very confidently however, the supposition that the... | |
 | 1884 - 784 Seiten
...artificer, but by its own intrinsic force and virtue it brings these forms forth. Matter is not the mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her...mother who brings forth all things as the fruit of her womb." For these sentiment* Bruno was accused of heresy, found guilty, and on February 16th, AD, 1600,... | |
 | 1885 - 810 Seiten
...was the fate of Bruno for teaching the astronomy of Copernicus? "This outspoken man," says Tyndall, "was originally a Dominican monk. He was accused of...Inquisition at Venice. * * He was imprisoned for many years, tried,-excommunicated and handed over to the civil power, with the request that he should be treated... | |
 | 1874 - 748 Seiten
...without the meddling of the gods ' ? or with Bruno, when he declares that matter is not ' that mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her...brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb ' ? The questions here raised are inevitable. They are approaching uswith accelerated speed, and it... | |
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Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods?" or with Bruno, when he declares that Matter is not "that mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her to be, but the universal mother who brings forth... 
