Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... character and the private circumstances of his life . Nor do they all agree in the estimate they formed of him . Some represented him to me as a keen , hardworking , and judicious man , engrossed by his professional work , yet with a ...
... character and the private circumstances of his life . Nor do they all agree in the estimate they formed of him . Some represented him to me as a keen , hardworking , and judicious man , engrossed by his professional work , yet with a ...
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... character , as a part of nature , nay , as her highest achievement , so that , if religion can be shown to be a natural out- come of our faculties , we may readily accept the Science of Religion as one of the natural sciences , in the ...
... character , as a part of nature , nay , as her highest achievement , so that , if religion can be shown to be a natural out- come of our faculties , we may readily accept the Science of Religion as one of the natural sciences , in the ...
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... character of religion , we may surely recognise a sign of the times . Would such a Will have been possible fifty years ago ? Would any English , would any Scotch University at that time have accepted a lectureship on such conditions ? I ...
... character of religion , we may surely recognise a sign of the times . Would such a Will have been possible fifty years ago ? Would any English , would any Scotch University at that time have accepted a lectureship on such conditions ? I ...
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... character of certain gods and heroes . Plato extends this practice even more widely , though he often leaves us in doubt whether he is really serious in his etymo- logies or not . You know how in his Cratylus ( 410 ) he derives anp ...
... character of certain gods and heroes . Plato extends this practice even more widely , though he often leaves us in doubt whether he is really serious in his etymo- logies or not . You know how in his Cratylus ( 410 ) he derives anp ...
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... not the speculative or philo- sophical side of religion . The questions as to the 2 Cic . Lael . 25 , 96 . 1 N. D. i . 42 , 117 . 3 Variarum Libri , ii . 27 . existence , the character and powers of their gods , DEFINITION OF RELIGION . 39.
... not the speculative or philo- sophical side of religion . The questions as to the 2 Cic . Lael . 25 , 96 . 1 N. D. i . 42 , 117 . 3 Variarum Libri , ii . 27 . existence , the character and powers of their gods , DEFINITION OF RELIGION . 39.
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