Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page vii
... human mind . This silent faith which supported the great thinkers of the last century , has in our time become a reality , and has been con- firmed by the best students in nearly every branch of historical as well as of physical ...
... human mind . This silent faith which supported the great thinkers of the last century , has in our time become a reality , and has been con- firmed by the best students in nearly every branch of historical as well as of physical ...
Page x
... 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 their shape but that at one time they must have been used by human hands . Whatever may be ...
... 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 their shape but that at one time they must have been used by human hands . Whatever may be ...
Page xi
... 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 - called growth or development of language was the work of myriads of human beings , building ...
... 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 - called growth or development of language was the work of myriads of human beings , building ...
Page xiv
... human thought , it will easily be seen that my contributions to the Science of Mythology form but a natural continuation of those linguistic studies , showing the same natural growth and development , the same inevitable and ...
... human thought , it will easily be seen that my contributions to the Science of Mythology form but a natural continuation of those linguistic studies , showing the same natural growth and development , the same inevitable and ...
Page xv
... human beings themselves , claimed for themselves the right to assign to their own religion a superhuman or miraculous origin . What is natural is divine , what is supernatural is human . That all re- ligions contain some truth was the ...
... human beings themselves , claimed for themselves the right to assign to their own religion a superhuman or miraculous origin . What is natural is divine , what is supernatural is human . That all re- ligions contain some truth was the ...
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