Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Sir Kenneth’s compatriots, I ‘ take instru- ments and crave extracts.’ But for use at a future stage only, as I do not wish to interrupt the present run of the discussion. Stephen Fairbank.—Just one word more, then, on this branch of our subject. Suppose the savage of Paley had found a hundred or a thousand watches; or even many thousands, all of the same pattern, would this weaken your argument ? Dr. Hermann Stoffkraft.—On the contrary, it would strengthen it. For, to take a simpler case, when I see a schoolboy’s marble, for instance, I cannot tell whether this may not have been formed by Nature, but when I see a thousand all of nearly the same pattern, I am quite sure that they have been made by man. Stephen Fairbank.—Now, a few questions on another point:—I suppose we are all agreed that molecules and atoms form the material basis of the present universe, or, to adopt a well-known analogy, they are the bricks out of
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