Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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... Aryan roots , however , are so little chipped , that is , exhibit so few definite signs of human workmanship , that they might more truly be likened to the stones found on the North Downs of Kent by Mr. Harrison which tell us nothing by ...
... Aryan roots , however , are so little chipped , that is , exhibit so few definite signs of human workmanship , that they might more truly be likened to the stones found on the North Downs of Kent by Mr. Harrison which tell us nothing by ...
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... Aryan ances- tors was a natural product , was in fact their first half - poetical and half - religious philosophy , in which the causes which they naturally postu- lated for the changes of light and darkness , of rain and sunshine ...
... Aryan ances- tors was a natural product , was in fact their first half - poetical and half - religious philosophy , in which the causes which they naturally postu- lated for the changes of light and darkness , of rain and sunshine ...
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... Aryan races , and with religious ideas showing some rude similarities to our own . Although we can hardly assume a genealogical connection between mythologies belonging to nations not held together by any genealogical relationship in ...
... Aryan races , and with religious ideas showing some rude similarities to our own . Although we can hardly assume a genealogical connection between mythologies belonging to nations not held together by any genealogical relationship in ...
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... Aryan savages . Why ? — Answers to the cosmological question . - Emanation . - Emana- tion or srishti . - Golden egg - Teleological argument . - An- thropomorphism . — Ontological argument . - A creator . - Origin of the idea of cause ...
... Aryan savages . Why ? — Answers to the cosmological question . - Emanation . - Emana- tion or srishti . - Golden egg - Teleological argument . - An- thropomorphism . — Ontological argument . - A creator . - Origin of the idea of cause ...
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... Aryan nations separated 1 . Think what that implies . We read in the Rig - veda I. 55 , 5 : When the fiery Indra hurls down the thunderbolt , then people believe in him . ' Adha kana srat dadhati tvishimate Indraya vagram nighanighnate ...
... Aryan nations separated 1 . Think what that implies . We read in the Rig - veda I. 55 , 5 : When the fiery Indra hurls down the thunderbolt , then people believe in him . ' Adha kana srat dadhati tvishimate Indraya vagram nighanighnate ...
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