...from one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philofophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity mult be caufed by an agent aflhig conltamly according to certain laws ; but whether this ac;ent be...

...opinion is againft me. Sir Ifaac Newton fays, " Gravity muft be *' caufed by an agent, acting contrary, according to certain " laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, " I have left to the confideration of my Readers." Here Sir Ifaac plainly allows, that matter is an agent, and afts ; but...

...vacuum, without the medium of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." positively concluded that a medium was required to transmit gravitative energy, and that that medium...

...one to another, is to me, ' (fays Sir Ifaac] fo great an abfurdity, that ' I believe no man, who ha» in philosophical ' matters a competent faculty of thinking, ' can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be cau' fed by an agent ailing cgnftantly according *' to certain laws." But fuppofing gravity...

...without the me" dial ion of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is " to me so great an absurdity,...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into i(." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner...

...gravity a power innate, inherent, and essential to matter; and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that" gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." This agent and its mode of action it is the object of Colden's...

...distance. 336 Of the immediate cause of gravitation, he confesses himself ignorant. *He says, that gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, he did not attempt to decide. He reflected much on this subject, but it does not appear that he ever...

...Isaac Newton understood this matter better than the French physiologists, when he asserted, that ' Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws*. The word lute cannot supply the place, or annihilate the reality of the agent. In addition to this,...

...without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed " from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one...

...the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed '• from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...faculty of '• thinking, can ever fall into it." communication of motion by impulse, might have been predicted by reasoning a priori* With this passage...