Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page vi
... nature which Darwin chose for the special field of his brilliant labours . Language , mythology , religion , nay even philosophy can now be proved to be the outcome of a natural growth or development rather than of intentional efforts ...
... nature which Darwin chose for the special field of his brilliant labours . Language , mythology , religion , nay even philosophy can now be proved to be the outcome of a natural growth or development rather than of intentional efforts ...
Page vii
... nature , clung to that faith and fore- saw the triumphs of the days in which we are living . What impeded their progress was the scarcity of materials , while we begin to suffer from a superabundance of them . We may be surprised when ...
... nature , clung to that faith and fore- saw the triumphs of the days in which we are living . What impeded their progress was the scarcity of materials , while we begin to suffer from a superabundance of them . We may be surprised when ...
Page xii
... natural product , was in fact their first half - poetical and half - religious philosophy , in which the causes which ... nature , were con- ceived and named by them as active , as agents , as individuals , as persons , nay in the end as ...
... natural product , was in fact their first half - poetical and half - religious philosophy , in which the causes which ... nature , were con- ceived and named by them as active , as agents , as individuals , as persons , nay in the end as ...
Page xiii
... nature , as anthropological , or founded on the nature of man , and as psychological , or occupied with the nature of soul and its relation to God . A wider acquaintance with the less civilised . races of the present day - for we can ...
... nature , as anthropological , or founded on the nature of man , and as psychological , or occupied with the nature of soul and its relation to God . A wider acquaintance with the less civilised . races of the present day - for we can ...
Page xv
... natural out- come of the human mind when brought in con- tact with nature , and with what is behind this phenomenal and perishable nature , the Invisible , the Eternal , the Divine . This is true religion , because natural religion ...
... natural out- come of the human mind when brought in con- tact with nature , and with what is behind this phenomenal and perishable nature , the Invisible , the Eternal , the Divine . This is true religion , because natural religion ...
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