Natural ReligionAsian Educational Services, 1979 - 608 pages |
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... imagine that the Veda was composed by the first man who escaped from the glacial period , or by the first poet who could stammer forth human language . Why will people always imagine the impossible to be possible ? However , it was but ...
... imagine that the Veda was composed by the first man who escaped from the glacial period , or by the first poet who could stammer forth human language . Why will people always imagine the impossible to be possible ? However , it was but ...
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... imagine a mammoth saying to himself , Who is my father ? Who was my grandfather , my great - grandfather , my great - great - grandfather , the father of all fathers , our Father in heaven ? Can we imagine even the most favoured ...
... imagine a mammoth saying to himself , Who is my father ? Who was my grandfather , my great - grandfather , my great - great - grandfather , the father of all fathers , our Father in heaven ? Can we imagine even the most favoured ...
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... imagine the craving of hunger in nature unless there was something in nature to satisfy that hunger ? I go even further , and ask , Can you imagine an eye with- out light , or an ear without sound ? Neither can we imagine this craving ...
... imagine the craving of hunger in nature unless there was something in nature to satisfy that hunger ? I go even further , and ask , Can you imagine an eye with- out light , or an ear without sound ? Neither can we imagine this craving ...
Contents
LECTURE I | 1 |
LECTURE II | 27 |
the infinite led to religious ideas Tangible semitangible | 43 |
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