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The force behind this explosion is the cosmical constant of repulsion X, which opposes the force of gravity in large-scale regions of the cosmos.

From Time Magazine Archive

To Rationalist Schweitzer the phrase "Reverence for Life" seems "the ethic of Jesus brought to philosophical expression, extended into cosmical form, and conceived of as intellectually necessary."

From Time Magazine Archive

The theory of Relativity requires that in addition to gravitational attraction there should be a force of cosmical repulsion.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we turn to patristic literature, we find, everywhere, the same superstitions and the same theories of angelic agency and demoniacal interference in cosmical phenomena.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

It will be noted that, up to the present point, the cosmical system has been discussed from a purely abstract point of view.

From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James