Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page vi
... historical method where for- merly we had to be satisfied with mere theories or postulates , so that at the present moment it may truly be said that what is meant by evolution or continuous development has now been proved to exist in ...
... historical method where for- merly we had to be satisfied with mere theories or postulates , so that at the present moment it may truly be said that what is meant by evolution or continuous development has now been proved to exist in ...
Page vii
... historical facts , leaving their impress on every succeeding generation . There never was a break in the history of the human mind . This silent faith which supported the great thinkers of the last century , has in our time become a ...
... historical facts , leaving their impress on every succeeding generation . There never was a break in the history of the human mind . This silent faith which supported the great thinkers of the last century , has in our time become a ...
Page ix
... historical or pre - historical times . For it must not be forgotten that these roots and their derivatives are not mere guesses or theories , but hard facts , quite as hard as the chipped flints dug out from the gravel beds of the river ...
... historical or pre - historical times . For it must not be forgotten that these roots and their derivatives are not mere guesses or theories , but hard facts , quite as hard as the chipped flints dug out from the gravel beds of the river ...
Page xi
... historical and comparative study of language has revealed to us the true growth of the human mind as realised in language , from its fossil period onward to the days of Shakespeare , it has taught us at the same time that this so ...
... historical and comparative study of language has revealed to us the true growth of the human mind as realised in language , from its fossil period onward to the days of Shakespeare , it has taught us at the same time that this so ...
Page xv
... historical , study of religion . Religions have shared the fate of languages and mythologies . They have been studied his- torically and in a comparative spirit , and they have thus been recognised as the natural out- come of the human ...
... historical , study of religion . Religions have shared the fate of languages and mythologies . They have been studied his- torically and in a comparative spirit , and they have thus been recognised as the natural out- come of the human ...
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