The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... things , which are perfectly well known to everybody . But this was unavoidable , in order to present a continu- ous whole , from the same point of view . Doubtless , a learned person could have performed the task far better , in many ...
... things , which are perfectly well known to everybody . But this was unavoidable , in order to present a continu- ous whole , from the same point of view . Doubtless , a learned person could have performed the task far better , in many ...
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... things must be good , they knew not how to account for disease and wickedness . They did not ascribe them to a Bad Spirit , almost as powerful as God himself ; but they sup- posed that Matter was Evil , and that the union of Spirit with ...
... things must be good , they knew not how to account for disease and wickedness . They did not ascribe them to a Bad Spirit , almost as powerful as God himself ; but they sup- posed that Matter was Evil , and that the union of Spirit with ...
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... things entangled the soul in temptation and sin ; that man's great object should be to withdraw himself entirely from Nature , and thus become completely absorbed in the eternal Soul of the Universe , from which his own soul originally ...
... things entangled the soul in temptation and sin ; that man's great object should be to withdraw himself entirely from Nature , and thus become completely absorbed in the eternal Soul of the Universe , from which his own soul originally ...
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... things emanate from him , all is he , and all returns to him . As plants grow out of the earth and return to it again , so does everything in the universe emanate from this divine essence , subsist continually by it , and finally return ...
... things emanate from him , all is he , and all returns to him . As plants grow out of the earth and return to it again , so does everything in the universe emanate from this divine essence , subsist continually by it , and finally return ...
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... things , and all things in God , is called Pantheism , from Greek words signifying God in All . When the mind is strongly impressed with this belief , and conscientiously acts upon it , the effect is great tenderness toward animals ...
... things , and all things in God , is called Pantheism , from Greek words signifying God in All . When the mind is strongly impressed with this belief , and conscientiously acts upon it , the effect is great tenderness toward animals ...
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