Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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... remain the life - spring of all true religion , however much it may have been hidden for a time by those who , though human beings themselves , claimed for themselves the right to assign to their own religion a superhuman or miraculous ...
... remain the life - spring of all true religion , however much it may have been hidden for a time by those who , though human beings themselves , claimed for themselves the right to assign to their own religion a superhuman or miraculous ...
Page xxv
... remain of my means and estate after the said ten purposes are fulfilled that I call herein the ' residue ' of my ... remains after fulfilling the above ten purposes , and being of opinion that I am bound if there is a ' residue ' as so ...
... remain of my means and estate after the said ten purposes are fulfilled that I call herein the ' residue ' of my ... remains after fulfilling the above ten purposes , and being of opinion that I am bound if there is a ' residue ' as so ...
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... remains , that while in all other spheres of human thought , what is new is welcomed , anything new in religion is generally frowned upon . Nay , even when we seem to see healthy growth and natural progress in religion , it generally ...
... remains , that while in all other spheres of human thought , what is new is welcomed , anything new in religion is generally frowned upon . Nay , even when we seem to see healthy growth and natural progress in religion , it generally ...
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... remain . No astronomer ventures to look at the sun without darkening his lens , and man will have to look at what is beyond through a glass darkly . But as in every other pur- suit , so in religion also , we want less and less of ...
... remain . No astronomer ventures to look at the sun without darkening his lens , and man will have to look at what is beyond through a glass darkly . But as in every other pur- suit , so in religion also , we want less and less of ...
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... remain without a solid foundation till the whole of the Rig- veda had been published . This idea took complete possession of me , and young as I was , and , I ought to 1 Upanishads , translated by Max Müller , in Sacred Books of the ...
... remain without a solid foundation till the whole of the Rig- veda had been published . This idea took complete possession of me , and young as I was , and , I ought to 1 Upanishads , translated by Max Müller , in Sacred Books of the ...
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