Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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Page 101
... Aryan nations separated 1 . Think what that implies . We read in the Rig - veda I. 55 , 5 : When the fiery Indra hurls down the thunderbolt , then people believe in him . ' Adha kana srat dadhati tvishimate Indraya vagram nighanighnate ...
... Aryan nations separated 1 . Think what that implies . We read in the Rig - veda I. 55 , 5 : When the fiery Indra hurls down the thunderbolt , then people believe in him . ' Adha kana srat dadhati tvishimate Indraya vagram nighanighnate ...
Page 131
... Aryan thought within our reach , contains relics of different ages , and even its most ancient relics are relics of Aryan thought only , and are separated by an immeasurable distance from what people are pleased to call the beginning of ...
... Aryan thought within our reach , contains relics of different ages , and even its most ancient relics are relics of Aryan thought only , and are separated by an immeasurable distance from what people are pleased to call the beginning of ...
Page 132
... Aryan ancestors began life with a clear conception and definite name of the Infinite in the abstract . Mana . My remarks on Mana also have been supposed to mean something very different from what I intended . Mana1 is the name , not of ...
... Aryan ancestors began life with a clear conception and definite name of the Infinite in the abstract . Mana . My remarks on Mana also have been supposed to mean something very different from what I intended . Mana1 is the name , not of ...
Page 135
... Aryan languages and must therefore have been framed prior even to the Aryan separation . The origin of their names lies , therefore , far beyond the Vedic age , and if they were originally names of finite phenomena , conceived as ...
... Aryan languages and must therefore have been framed prior even to the Aryan separation . The origin of their names lies , therefore , far beyond the Vedic age , and if they were originally names of finite phenomena , conceived as ...
Page 137
... Aryan language could begin with French . And is it really a very finite sphere of thought , if people have actually brought themselves to believe , not only that there are bright gods in heaven , but that these gods in heaven can hear ...
... Aryan language could begin with French . And is it really a very finite sphere of thought , if people have actually brought themselves to believe , not only that there are bright gods in heaven , but that these gods in heaven can hear ...
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