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1 If that can be done, I don't see why weaving should baffle a clever mechanist.

2 If a mechanist, after planning a machine for a certain purpose, introduced in the execution of it parts which contributed nothing towards effecting that purpose, would not this be considered to be an imperfection?

3 The early Victorians liked what was definable and tangible; they were "ponderous mechanists of style."

4 The Compensating System of Construction.—Compensation for wear is a part of the mechanist's art that appears just as essential to him as compensation for variation of temperature is to a maker of chronometers.

5 He must have been a clever mechanist, for the result was always the same-after a longer or shorter period the music began again.

6 This admirable motion will no doubt attract much attention from mechanists and engineers.

7 The manner in which Shakespeare's plays have been generally altered or rather mangled by modern mechanists, is a disgrace to the English stage.

8 And for this reason Aristotle praises him, and, contrasting him with the mechanists, Leucippus and Democritus, says that he appears like "a sober man among vain babblers."

9 Add to this the consideration that the mechanist theory does not even claim to account for the first origin of the universe: it postulates the existence of matter in motion.

10 Darwin’s theory went into eclipse at the turn of the century, Bernard’s vitalism died out altogether, but du Bois-Reymond’s mechanist approach laid the foundation of modern biology.

11 These truths are as plain to the mechanist as they are to the vitalist.

12 They are not explained by the supposition of mechanists that these agencies are mere efficient causes: efficient causality does not account for order, it has got simply nothing to do with order or regularity.

13 The saw also has a lock-off safety feature to keep the chain from unintentionally activating, and a computer mechanist to keep the saw from overheating or overloading.

14 "The necessary being, the sun of eternity, the mechanist of nature, the eye of justice, the watch-maker of the universe, the soul of the world."

15 Now the mechanist, the hero of the story, the "Artist of the Beautiful," is described throughout as animated with the feelings proper to the artist, not to the mechanician.

16 He must have been a clever mechanist, for the result was always the same—after a longer or shorter period, the music began again.

17 Well, Hobbes took this mechanist view of nature to its extreme.

霍布斯将自然机械论观点发挥到了极致。

18 If we follow the lead of our logical, scientific faculties, then, we shall all be mechanists and materialists.

19 For the representation of this tragedy Vaucanson, the celebrated French mechanist, invented an automaton asp, which crawled and hissed to the life,—to the great delight of the Parisians.

20 He endeavors to show that it is unworthy of God that He should be supposed to have contrived the mechanism of the orchids, as a mechanist contrives a curious puzzle.

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