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The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875

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Author
Various
Language
English
Subjects
Catholic Church › Periodicals
Length
489,548 words · about 34 h 17 min
Sections
77 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (77)
  1. Opening about 6 min
  2. THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XX., NO. 115.—OCTOBER, 1874 about 31 min
  3. Hope about 1 h 2 min
  4. September—Sabbath Rest under 1 min
  5. The Present State Of Anglicanism about 30 min
  6. Antar And Zara; Or, “The Only True Lovers.” under 1 min
  7. VI. They Sang about 7 min
  8. Assunta Howard. III. In Extremis about 1 h 7 min
  9. A Legend Of Alsace about 26 min
  10. Fac‐Similes Of Irish National Manuscripts about 15 min
  11. Congress Of The Catholic Germans At Mayence about 34 min
  12. Switzerland In 1873. Lucerne about 33 min
  13. The Poem Of Izdubar about 17 min
  14. THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XX., NO. 116.—NOVEMBER, 1874 about 27 min
  15. A Vision under 1 min
  16. On The Wing. A Southern Flight. VII. Concluded about 40 min
  17. The Three Edens about 41 min
  18. Destiny about 49 min
  19. Fac‐Similes Of Irish National Manuscripts. Concluded about 22 min
  20. Annals Of The Moss‐Troopers about 27 min
  21. Assunta Howard. IV. Convalescence about 25 min
  22. Switzerland In 1873. Lucerne. Concluded about 36 min
  23. A Legend Of Alsace. Concluded about 25 min
  24. Wind And Tide under 1 min
  25. Matter. IV about 38 min
  26. THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XX., NO. 117.—DECEMBER, 1874 about 1 h 6 min
  27. Church Chant Versus Church Music about 36 min
  28. Assunta Howard. V. Sienna about 31 min
  29. Swinburne And De Vere about 35 min
  30. Requies Mea under 1 min
  31. Ontologism And Psychologism about 32 min
  32. Reminiscences Of A Tile‐Field about 33 min
  33. The Ingenious Device under 1 min
  34. The Rigi about 40 min
  35. Church Song about 1 min
  36. A Discussion With An Infidel about 43 min
  37. The Ice‐Wigwam Of Minnehaha about 9 min
  38. A Russian Sister Of Charity about 13 min
  39. THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XX., NO. 118.—JANUARY, 1875 about 22 min
  40. Christmas‐Tide about 47 min
  41. Another General Convention Of The Protestant Episcopal Church about 23 min
  42. Assunta Howard. Concluded about 32 min
  43. Matter. V about 34 min
  44. Christmas In The Thirteenth Century about 40 min
  45. Robespierre about 22 min
  46. The Better Christmas about 1 min
  47. English And Scotch Scenes about 1 h 3 min
  48. The Leap For Life about 5 min
  49. The Year Of Our Lord 1874 about 51 min
  50. THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XX., NO. 119.—FEBRUARY, 1875 about 43 min
  51. The Church In F—— about 1 min
  52. Are You My Wife? Chapter I under 1 min
  53. I. A Few Pages From Clide De Winton’s Note‐Book about 47 min
  54. Religion And State In Our Republic about 36 min
  55. Release about 47 min
  56. The Brooklet about 20 min
  57. A Summer In Rome about 18 min
  58. Matter. VI about 33 min
  59. Robespierre. Concluded about 24 min
  60. Robert Cavelier De La Salle about 31 min
  61. Birth‐Days about 24 min
  62. The Bells Of Prayer about 20 min
  63. THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XX., NO. 120.—MARCH, 1875 about 40 min
  64. Crown Jewels under 1 min
  65. Are You My Wife? Chapter II under 1 min
  66. II. I Introduce My Wife—She Disappears! about 54 min
  67. The Colonization Of New South Wales By Great Britain. Concluded about 19 min
  68. The Veil Withdrawn about 46 min
  69. A Bit Of Modern Thought On Matter about 38 min
  70. The Blind Student about 18 min
  71. Turning From Darwin To Thomas Aquinas under 1 min
  72. The Future Of The Russian Church about 28 min
  73. Burke And The Revolution about 24 min
  74. Robert Cavelier De La Salle. Concluded about 35 min
  75. The Log Chapel On The Rappahannock about 23 min
  76. New Publications about 12 min
  77. FOOTNOTES about 36 min

The opening of THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XX., NO. 115.—OCTOBER, 1874

Matter. III.

The plain philosophical and scientific proofs by which we have established the actio in distans, although sufficient, in our judgment, to convince every unbiassed reader of the truth of the view we have maintained, may nevertheless prove inadequate to remove the prejudice of those who regard the time‐honored doctrine of action by material contact as axiomatic and unassailable. It is true that they cannot upset our arguments; but they oppose to us other arguments, which they confidently believe to be unanswerable. It is therefore necessary for us to supplement our previous demonstration by a careful analysis of the objections which can be made against it, and to show the intrinsic unsoundness of the reasonings by which they are supported. This is what we intend to do in the present article.

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