Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 119: For January, 1864-April, 1864; To Be Continued Quarterly To questions such as these the new philosophy gives a definite and satisfactory answer, proving, as clearly as Newton did mechanics, that by the employment of none of the powers of nature can work be done without a corresponding supply of energy of some kind. Thus in the steam-engine we find the source of necessary power in the heat which disappears in the cylinder; the amount of heat which the waste ...
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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 119: For January, 1864-April, 1864; To Be Continued Quarterly To questions such as these the new philosophy gives a definite and satisfactory answer, proving, as clearly as Newton did mechanics, that by the employment of none of the powers of nature can work be done without a corresponding supply of energy of some kind. Thus in the steam-engine we find the source of necessary power in the heat which disappears in the cylinder; the amount of heat which the waste steam conveys into the condenser not being nearly as much as that which enters the cylinder, the difference between the two amounts is converted into mechanical action. So that at last we come to the conclusion that, with whatsoever forces of nature we Operate, a perpetuum mobile cannot be constructed - that we cannot by any means whatever produce an effect without a consumption of some kind of power. What follows from this important conclusion? What do we mean when we say that a perpetuum mobile is impossible? We mean that there is no such thing in nature as a creation of force; that all the changes which we see going on around us are produced solely by the transference of force; and hence force cannot be destroyed any more than matter. We may sum up these results in the words of Mr. Grove, an early and able expounder of these views: In all phenomena, the more closely they are investigated, the more we are convinced that, humanly speaking, neither matter nor force can be created or annihilated, and that an essential cause is unattainable. Causation is the will, creation the act of God.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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