Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page xi
... true growth of the human mind as realised in language , from its fossil period onward to the days of Shakespeare , it has taught us at the same time that this so - called growth or development of language was the work of myriads of ...
... true growth of the human mind as realised in language , from its fossil period onward to the days of Shakespeare , it has taught us at the same time that this so - called growth or development of language was the work of myriads of ...
Page xv
... true religion , because natural religion , based on that touch with God through nature , which has been and will always remain the life - spring of all true religion , however much it may have been hidden for a time by those who ...
... true religion , because natural religion , based on that touch with God through nature , which has been and will always remain the life - spring of all true religion , however much it may have been hidden for a time by those who ...
Page xix
... true praise of God ? To have looked for growth and evolution in history as well as in nature is no blame , and it has proved no loss to the present or to the last century ; and if the veil has as yet been but little withdrawn from the ...
... true praise of God ? To have looked for growth and evolution in history as well as in nature is no blame , and it has proved no loss to the present or to the last century ; and if the veil has as yet been but little withdrawn from the ...
Page xxv
... true and felt knowledge ( not mere nominal knowledge ) of the relations of man and of the universe to Him , and of the true foundations of all ethics or morals , being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted ...
... true and felt knowledge ( not mere nominal knowledge ) of the relations of man and of the universe to Him , and of the true foundations of all ethics or morals , being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted ...
Page xxvii
... true thinkers , sincere lovers of and earnest inquirers after truth . Fifth , I wish the lecturers to treat Subject to their subject as a strictly natural science , the greatest of all be treated possible sciences , indeed , in one ...
... true thinkers , sincere lovers of and earnest inquirers after truth . Fifth , I wish the lecturers to treat Subject to their subject as a strictly natural science , the greatest of all be treated possible sciences , indeed , in one ...
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