Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page ix
... language , meaning by language words that were made of roots expressive of general ideas . It is language , thus understood , as built up on roots and on general ideas , not on groans or sighs or grunts , that has hitherto placed , and ...
... language , meaning by language words that were made of roots expressive of general ideas . It is language , thus understood , as built up on roots and on general ideas , not on groans or sighs or grunts , that has hitherto placed , and ...
Page xi
... 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 - called growth or development of language ...
... 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 - called growth or development of language ...
Page xiv
... language , much may be learnt even from mere coincidences , if only that man , whatever his colour and whatever his language , represents at all times and in all places one and the same divine thought , however disguised and however ...
... language , much may be learnt even from mere coincidences , if only that man , whatever his colour and whatever his language , represents at all times and in all places one and the same divine thought , however disguised and however ...
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... language . - Historical school . - Acutus . - Theoretic school.- Brinton on palaeolithic language . - Advantages of both theories . - Science of religion.— Historical school . - Semitic , Aryan , Chinese religions . - Re- ligions ...
... language . - Historical school . - Acutus . - Theoretic school.- Brinton on palaeolithic language . - Advantages of both theories . - Science of religion.— Historical school . - Semitic , Aryan , Chinese religions . - Re- ligions ...
Page xxxiv
... LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT . 328-350 What should we be without language . - Definition of think- ing . What are we thinking of ? —Thinking in German or English . Why we cannot think without words . - Communica- tion , not language . - Images ...
... LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT . 328-350 What should we be without language . - Definition of think- ing . What are we thinking of ? —Thinking in German or English . Why we cannot think without words . - Communica- tion , not language . - Images ...
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