Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... changed the whole face of the earth , while our philosophy , our laws , even our morality , bear the impress of the nineteenth century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the beginning of our era , it ...
... changed the whole face of the earth , while our philosophy , our laws , even our morality , bear the impress of the nineteenth century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the beginning of our era , it ...
Page 36
... changed from century to century , often from genera- tion to generation ; nay , like the expression of the human face , the expression of a word also may change from moment to moment . In one sense our historical definition may be ...
... changed from century to century , often from genera- tion to generation ; nay , like the expression of the human face , the expression of a word also may change from moment to moment . In one sense our historical definition may be ...
Page 49
... changed the Jewish for the Christian religion , that is to say , that he has changed his own religious convictions . But we may also say that a person is studying the Buddhist re- ligion , either by reading the sacred books of the ...
... changed the Jewish for the Christian religion , that is to say , that he has changed his own religious convictions . But we may also say that a person is studying the Buddhist re- ligion , either by reading the sacred books of the ...
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... actions , we have a definition of the kind required . ' ( Theism , p . 32. ) But can belief in what is inaccessible to our senses be rightly called knowledge ? ful Being , is changed at once into a perfect 70 LECTURE III .
... actions , we have a definition of the kind required . ' ( Theism , p . 32. ) But can belief in what is inaccessible to our senses be rightly called knowledge ? ful Being , is changed at once into a perfect 70 LECTURE III .
Page 71
... changed at once into a perfect consensus or accord with the will of God , nay into perfect and unhesitating atoneness with even His most inscrutable counsels . So long as man stands face to face to God , conscious only of his own ...
... changed at once into a perfect consensus or accord with the will of God , nay into perfect and unhesitating atoneness with even His most inscrutable counsels . So long as man stands face to face to God , conscious only of his own ...
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Page 567 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.