Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page viii
... fact , or as a real fact of history , that the bulk of words used by Hindus , Persians , Greeks , Romans , Teutons , Slaves , and Celts , and by ourselves , were derived from radical elements consisting each of a few consonants and ...
... fact , or as a real fact of history , that the bulk of words used by Hindus , Persians , Greeks , Romans , Teutons , Slaves , and Celts , and by ourselves , were derived from radical elements consisting each of a few consonants and ...
Page xii
... 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 , spring and winter , and all the other stirring ...
... 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 , spring and winter , and all the other stirring ...
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... fact , may turn out different from what we hoped for , may turn out only new rubbish added to the accumulated rubbish of former ages . All this we must be prepared for , but if in the end we can only point to a few of our thoughts that ...
... fact , may turn out different from what we hoped for , may turn out only new rubbish added to the accumulated rubbish of former ages . All this we must be prepared for , but if in the end we can only point to a few of our thoughts that ...
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... fact remains , that while in all other spheres of human thought , what is new is welcomed , anything new in religion is generally frowned upon . Nay , even when we seem to see healthy growth and natural progress in religion , it ...
... fact remains , that while in all other spheres of human thought , what is new is welcomed , anything new in religion is generally frowned upon . Nay , even when we seem to see healthy growth and natural progress in religion , it ...
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... facts of religion ; secondly , to an intercomparison of these facts ; and thirdly , to an interpretation of their meaning . But Lord Gifford has not only indicated what he wished chiefly to be taught in these lectures on Natural ...
... facts of religion ; secondly , to an intercomparison of these facts ; and thirdly , to an interpretation of their meaning . But Lord Gifford has not only indicated what he wished chiefly to be taught in these lectures on Natural ...
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