Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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Page ix
... whole world being in possession of a language , meaning by language words that were made of roots expressive of general ideas . It is language , thus understood , as built up on roots and on general ideas , not on groans or sighs or ...
... whole world being in possession of a language , meaning by language words that were made of roots expressive of general ideas . It is language , thus understood , as built up on roots and on general ideas , not on groans or sighs or ...
Page xi
... of mythology . 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.
... of mythology . 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.
Page xii
... whole of mankind , represent a very considerable and most interesting portion of it . Semitic mythology has taught us much the same lesson , and we may patiently wait for the new light which the study of allophylian folk- lore may have ...
... whole of mankind , represent a very considerable and most interesting portion of it . Semitic mythology has taught us much the same lesson , and we may patiently wait for the new light which the study of allophylian folk- lore may have ...
Page xiii
... 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 numerous that ...
... 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 numerous that ...
Page xvii
... whole history of the world has been changed by them , that not only have ever so many base- less fabrics been swept away , but the study of man or of mankind has assumed a new mean- ing and a new dignity . That language , such as we ...
... whole history of the world has been changed by them , that not only have ever so many base- less fabrics been swept away , but the study of man or of mankind has assumed a new mean- ing and a new dignity . That language , such as we ...
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