...J But, with submission, we would venture to suggest that such mirth is a little out of place on * " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects until we come to the first cause, which certainly is not mechanical " (Newton, " Optics," p. 384)....

...apothegm of Sir Isaac Newton may be quoted, as showing the popular method of investigating truth, he says: "The main business of natural philosophy is to argue "from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and ds"duce causes from effects." The founder of the Copernican system, not only does not argue from phenomena...

...discourage such studies, let him read the following justification, given at the same time by Newton — " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without figuring hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effect, till we come to the very first cause, which...

...that it alone of all books has undertaken the task assigned to science by Newton, when he said that " the main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce cause from effect until we come to the very First Cause," as we have already...

...effects. Moreover, no excuse for this state of things is to be found in Newton. For Newton said that "... the main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects. . . ."l And Newton not only said that it was the main business of Natural Philosophy to deduce causes...

...much concerning God, of Whom the Discourse from Phenomena belongs to Experimental Philosophy. . . . The main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. Besides the better Argument from Design which...

...philosophers," he says, " feign hypotheses . . . for 'explaining all things mechanically . . . whereas the ' main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...to deduce ' causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, 'which certainly is not mechanical."2 It will be evident from these citations that...

...to this question: (Qu. 28) — "the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which is certainly not mechanical. And not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World...

...to this question: (Qu. 28) — "the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenohiena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which is certainly not mechanical. And not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World...

...hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically and referring other causes to metaphysics : whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue...to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world,...