Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page viii
... important , expressive of general ideas . What enormous quantities of words can be reduced to one germ , what enormous distances of time can be spanned by the Science of Language , and what light has been thrown by that science on the ...
... important , expressive of general ideas . What enormous quantities of words can be reduced to one germ , what enormous distances of time can be spanned by the Science of Language , and what light has been thrown by that science on the ...
Page xiii
... important lesson , that after the mythological stream has once started , the affluents which it receives are endless , so that nothing could be a greater mistake than to attempt to trace the whole body of mythology back to one source ...
... important lesson , that after the mythological stream has once started , the affluents which it receives are endless , so that nothing could be a greater mistake than to attempt to trace the whole body of mythology back to one source ...
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... important sign , of the times . Our nineteenth century , which will soon have passed away , has been described as a cen- tury of progress and enlightenment in all branches of human knowledge , in science , in scholarship , in philo ...
... important sign , of the times . Our nineteenth century , which will soon have passed away , has been described as a cen- tury of progress and enlightenment in all branches of human knowledge , in science , in scholarship , in philo ...
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... important part of the Science of Religion , is certainly concerned with what we call the historical development of religious thought and language . It is the same with the Science of Language . That science is certainly one of the ...
... important part of the Science of Religion , is certainly concerned with what we call the historical development of religious thought and language . It is the same with the Science of Language . That science is certainly one of the ...
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... listen to some of my criticisms , and at his request I then translated for him some of the most important Upanishads , which form part of the ancient с Vedic literature . I have never been able to recover LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 17.
... listen to some of my criticisms , and at his request I then translated for him some of the most important Upanishads , which form part of the ancient с Vedic literature . I have never been able to recover LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 17.
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