Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page xvii
... changed by them , that not only have ever so many base- less fabrics been swept away , but the study of man or of mankind has assumed a new mean- ing and a new dignity . That language , such as we know it in its various forms all over ...
... changed by them , that not only have ever so many base- less fabrics been swept away , but the study of man or of mankind has assumed a new mean- ing and a new dignity . That language , such as we know it in its various forms all over ...
Page 7
... changed the whole face of the earth , while our philosophy , our laws , even our morality , bear the impress of the nineteenth century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the beginning of our era , it ...
... changed the whole face of the earth , while our philosophy , our laws , even our morality , bear the impress of the nineteenth century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the beginning of our era , it ...
Page 36
... changed from century to century , often from genera- tion to generation ; nay , like the expression of the human face , the expression of a word also may change from moment to moment . In one sense our historical definition may be ...
... changed from century to century , often from genera- tion to generation ; nay , like the expression of the human face , the expression of a word also may change from moment to moment . In one sense our historical definition may be ...
Page 49
... changed the Jewish for the Christian religion , that is to say , that he has changed his own religious convictions . But we may also say that a person is studying the Buddhist re- ligion , either by reading the sacred books of the ...
... changed the Jewish for the Christian religion , that is to say , that he has changed his own religious convictions . But we may also say that a person is studying the Buddhist re- ligion , either by reading the sacred books of the ...
Page 70
... actions , we have a definition of the kind required . ' ( Theism , p . 32. ) But can belief in what is inaccessible to our senses be rightly called knowledge ? ful Being , is changed at once into a perfect 70 LECTURE III .
... actions , we have a definition of the kind required . ' ( Theism , p . 32. ) But can belief in what is inaccessible to our senses be rightly called knowledge ? ful Being , is changed at once into a perfect 70 LECTURE III .
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