Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page xii
... causes which they naturally postu- lated for the changes of light and darkness , of rain and sunshine , spring and winter , and all the other stirring events of nature , were con- ceived and named by them as active , as agents , as ...
... causes which they naturally postu- lated for the changes of light and darkness , of rain and sunshine , spring and winter , and all the other stirring events of nature , were con- ceived and named by them as active , as agents , as ...
Page xiii
... causes only . A study of religions has taught us the same lesson , that like the great rivers they may indeed have one source , but that their tributaries are so numerous that they often impart an entirely new colour to the original ...
... causes only . A study of religions has taught us the same lesson , that like the great rivers they may indeed have one source , but that their tributaries are so numerous that they often impart an entirely new colour to the original ...
Page xxiv
... cause of truth , do hereby make my Trust - deed and latter Will and Testament - that is to say , I give my body to the earth as it was before , in order that the enduring blocks and materials thereof may be employed in new combinations ...
... cause of truth , do hereby make my Trust - deed and latter Will and Testament - that is to say , I give my body to the earth as it was before , in order that the enduring blocks and materials thereof may be employed in new combinations ...
Page xxv
... Cause , that is , the One and Only Substance and Being , and the true and felt knowledge ( not mere nominal knowledge ) of the relations of man and of the universe to Him , and of the true foundations of all ethics or morals , being , I ...
... Cause , that is , the One and Only Substance and Being , and the true and felt knowledge ( not mere nominal knowledge ) of the relations of man and of the universe to Him , and of the true foundations of all ethics or morals , being , I ...
Page xxvi
... Cause , the One and the Sole Substance , the Sole Being , the Sole Reality , and the Sole Existence , the Knowledge of His Nature and Attributes , the Knowledge of the Relations which men and the whole universe bear to Him , the ...
... Cause , the One and the Sole Substance , the Sole Being , the Sole Reality , and the Sole Existence , the Knowledge of His Nature and Attributes , the Knowledge of the Relations which men and the whole universe bear to Him , the ...
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