Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... evolution . - Positivist point of view . - Rig - veda . - The dawn . - End and endless . - Endless in the Avesta . - Theogonic elements . - How the perception of NATURAL THEOLOGY . L LECTURE I. ORD GIFFORD'S munificent endowment.
... evolution . - Positivist point of view . - Rig - veda . - The dawn . - End and endless . - Endless in the Avesta . - Theogonic elements . - How the perception of NATURAL THEOLOGY . L LECTURE I. ORD GIFFORD'S munificent endowment.
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... dawn and other heavenly pheno- mena , to the Devas , as powers within or behind these heavenly bodies , and lastly to the beneficent agents in nature or above nature , whom the Hindus called Devas , and the Romans dii . As the biography ...
... dawn and other heavenly pheno- mena , to the Devas , as powers within or behind these heavenly bodies , and lastly to the beneficent agents in nature or above nature , whom the Hindus called Devas , and the Romans dii . As the biography ...
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... dawn of human intelligence , and that it is that very impression which , after passing through a long hiber- nation , grows and grows , and bursts forth at the very last , like the butterfly from the chrysalis , as the infinite in its ...
... dawn of human intelligence , and that it is that very impression which , after passing through a long hiber- nation , grows and grows , and bursts forth at the very last , like the butterfly from the chrysalis , as the infinite in its ...
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... Dawn , Thunder , Lightning , Storm , Mountains , Trees , etc. , and that the concept of superhuman beings arose afterwards , as a concept common to all , when divested of their characteristic differences . In the Veda we look in vain ...
... Dawn , Thunder , Lightning , Storm , Mountains , Trees , etc. , and that the concept of superhuman beings arose afterwards , as a concept common to all , when divested of their characteristic differences . In the Veda we look in vain ...
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... dawn , the sky , or Indra , the god of the sky , they did not simply mean the objects which they saw , but also ... dawn , but the dawn herself , ' whosoever that may be . Yes , ' who- Gruppe , p . 222 , ' Der Ausgangspunkt ist vom ...
... dawn , the sky , or Indra , the god of the sky , they did not simply mean the objects which they saw , but also ... dawn , but the dawn herself , ' whosoever that may be . Yes , ' who- Gruppe , p . 222 , ' Der Ausgangspunkt ist vom ...
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