Punch,  49 (1865), 75.

An Impossibility Accomplished

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Philosophy, Mechanics, Controversy, Politics


    Notes the controversy in the Saturday Review between John S Mill and William R Hamilton over the possibility of forming an 'idea of motion without a moving body'. Punch insists that this is possible, citing the example of 'the Conservative body, supporting a motion against progress'.



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