Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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... race of root- or word - makers , unless we suppose that man was in possession of reason before he was in possession of lan- guage or of words as the exponents of general ideas , however primitive and imperfect . Lan- guage , we have ...
... race of root- or word - makers , unless we suppose that man was in possession of reason before he was in possession of lan- guage or of words as the exponents of general ideas , however primitive and imperfect . Lan- guage , we have ...
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... . Some discovered in it more or less defaced survivals of a primeval revelation once granted to the whole human race ; others treated it boldly as the work of the devil , others again as the PREFACE TO COLLECTED WORKS . xi.
... . Some discovered in it more or less defaced survivals of a primeval revelation once granted to the whole human race ; others treated it boldly as the work of the devil , others again as the PREFACE TO COLLECTED WORKS . xi.
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... races of the present day - for we can know little of them before they had entered into the first stage of a social and civilised life - has made us acquainted with folklore often strikingly like that of the Aryan races , and with ...
... races of the present day - for we can know little of them before they had entered into the first stage of a social and civilised life - has made us acquainted with folklore often strikingly like that of the Aryan races , and with ...
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... race , the com- mon stock of truth which , as we are told , is not far from every one of us , if only we feel after it and find it ? Even Philosophy is not excluded from the universal evolution of human thought as dis- covered in the ...
... race , the com- mon stock of truth which , as we are told , is not far from every one of us , if only we feel after it and find it ? Even Philosophy is not excluded from the universal evolution of human thought as dis- covered in the ...
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... races of men , is a natural product of the human mind - and who denies this ? -and if the human mind , in its his- 1 Die allgemeine vergleichende Religionswissenschaft im akademischen Stu- dium unserer Zeit , von Dr. E. Hardy , Freiburg ...
... races of men , is a natural product of the human mind - and who denies this ? -and if the human mind , in its his- 1 Die allgemeine vergleichende Religionswissenschaft im akademischen Stu- dium unserer Zeit , von Dr. E. Hardy , Freiburg ...
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