Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page xii
... mythology has taught us much the same lesson , and we may patiently wait for the new light which the study of allophylian folk- lore may have in store for us . A more com- prehensive study of this mythological lore , which seems to lie ...
... mythology has taught us much the same lesson , and we may patiently wait for the new light which the study of allophylian folk- lore may have in store for us . A more com- prehensive study of this mythological lore , which seems to lie ...
Page xiii
... 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 , to physical causes only . A study ...
... 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 , to physical causes only . A study ...
Page xiv
... Mythology form but a natural continuation of those linguistic studies , showing the same natural growth and development , the same inevitable and intelligible evolution in the growth of myths as in the growth of language . All these ...
... Mythology form but a natural continuation of those linguistic studies , showing the same natural growth and development , the same inevitable and intelligible evolution in the growth of myths as in the growth of language . All these ...
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... MYTHOLOGY . Myths . - Meaning of mythology . - Etymology of μûlos . — Myth , a word . - Eos . - Mythology universal . - Comparative mythology and its three divisions . - Comparative philology . - Etymological school . - Analogical ...
... MYTHOLOGY . Myths . - Meaning of mythology . - Etymology of μûlos . — Myth , a word . - Eos . - Mythology universal . - Comparative mythology and its three divisions . - Comparative philology . - Etymological school . - Analogical ...
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... mythology and religion , based on more trustworthy materials than those on which Schelling had been able to build his later philo- sophy of religion and mythology . Thus , while I determined to work for others in bringing out as ...
... mythology and religion , based on more trustworthy materials than those on which Schelling had been able to build his later philo- sophy of religion and mythology . Thus , while I determined to work for others in bringing out as ...
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