Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page x
... traces of the handiwork of man , were deposited in the gravel when the river flowed fifty or a hundred feet higher than it does at present . Our Aryan roots , however , are so little chipped , that is , exhibit so few definite signs of ...
... traces of the handiwork of man , were deposited in the gravel when the river flowed fifty or a hundred feet higher than it does at present . Our Aryan roots , however , are so little chipped , that is , exhibit so few definite signs of ...
Page xiii
... trace the whole body of mythology back to one source , to physical causes only . A study of religions has taught us the same lesson , that like the great rivers they may indeed have one source , but that their tributaries are so ...
... trace the whole body of mythology back to one source , to physical causes only . A study of religions has taught us the same lesson , that like the great rivers they may indeed have one source , but that their tributaries are so ...
Page xxxiii
... traces in the Veda . - The old problems in their simpler form LECTURE X. PAGE 221-238 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS . Modern problems to be traced back . - Creation . - The logic of facts . Cosmological argument . - Aryan ...
... traces in the Veda . - The old problems in their simpler form LECTURE X. PAGE 221-238 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS . Modern problems to be traced back . - Creation . - The logic of facts . Cosmological argument . - Aryan ...
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... trace them back to their earliest forms , and classify them , and then analyse every word till we arrive at elements ... tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number ...
... trace them back to their earliest forms , and classify them , and then analyse every word till we arrive at elements ... tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number ...
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... Tracing the history of religio , we find it used in Latin in its original and wider sense of regard or respect , in such expressions as religio jurisjurandi , reverence for an oath , as distinguished from metus deorum , fear of the gods ...
... Tracing the history of religio , we find it used in Latin in its original and wider sense of regard or respect , in such expressions as religio jurisjurandi , reverence for an oath , as distinguished from metus deorum , fear of the gods ...
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