 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 540 pàgines
...•eparating, in his system, the active principle in natur* from the material mass upon which it acts, and thus introducing a distinct intelligent cause...homogeneal particles, produced the various forms of nature. That Anaxagoras maintained an infinite mind to be thd author of all motion and life, is attested by... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 544 pàgines
...separating, in his system, the active principle in nature from the material mass upon which it acts, ami thus introducing a distinct intelligent cause of all...homogeneal particles, produced the various forms of nature. That Anaxagoras maintained an infinite mind to be the author of all motion and life, is attested by... | |
 | William Ward - 1818 - 738 pàgines
...separating, in his system, the active principle in nature from the material mass upon which it acts, and thus introducing a distinct intelligent cause...motion, he concluded, that there must have been, from eternitv, an intelligent principle, or infinite mind, existing separately from matter, which having... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker, William Enfield - 1819 - 540 pàgines
...material mass upon which it acts, and thus introducing a distinct intelligent cause of all things.43 The similar particles of matter, which he supposed...homogeneal particles, produced the various forms of nature. That Anaxagoras maintained an infinite mind to be the Author of all motion and life, is attested by... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1827 - 614 pàgines
...philosopher was that of separating the active principle in nature from the material mass upon which it acts, and thus introducing a distinct intelligent cause...things. The similar particles of matter, which he supposes to be the basis of nature, being without life and motion, could not produce themselves; and,... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pàgines
...introduced into his philosophy a distinct, intelligent cause of all things, Matter being, as he clearly saw, without life or motion, he concluded that there must...have been, from eternity, an intelligent principle, an infinite mind, which, having the power of motion in itself, first imparted motion to the material... | |
 | 1839 - 536 pàgines
...introduced into his philosophy a distinct, intelligent cause of all things. Matter being, as he clearly saw, without life or motion, he concluded that there must...have been, from eternity, an intelligent principle, an infinite mind, which, having the power of motion in itself, first imparted motion to the material... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 pàgines
...separating in his system the active principle in nature, from the material substance upon which it acts, and thus introducing a distinct intelligent cause of all things. The similar particles of nature, which he supposed to be the basis of nature, being without life or motion, he concluded that... | |
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But the most important improvement which Anaxagoras made upon the doctrine of his predecessors, was that of separating, in his system, the active principle in nature from the material mass upon which it acts, and thus introducing a distinct intelligent... 