Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... Historical 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.
... Historical 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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... historical science . The line of demarcation between the natural and the historical sciences is not so easy to draw as some philosophers imagine , who would claim even the Science of Language as an exclusively historical science . All ...
... historical science . The line of demarcation between the natural and the historical sciences is not so easy to draw as some philosophers imagine , who would claim even the Science of Language as an exclusively historical science . All ...
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... historical growth of the Indian mind during the Vedic age , we must study the ancient hymns of the Veda . I re- member having a most interesting discussion on the relative importance of the Vedic hymns and the Upanishads with ...
... historical growth of the Indian mind during the Vedic age , we must study the ancient hymns of the Veda . I re- member having a most interesting discussion on the relative importance of the Vedic hymns and the Upanishads with ...
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... historical grounds , it can never give us more than the first starting - point of a word . It may teach us how the object to be named was first ... Historical Definition . We now come to historical definitions . DEFINITION OF RELIGION . 31.
... historical grounds , it can never give us more than the first starting - point of a word . It may teach us how the object to be named was first ... Historical Definition . We now come to historical definitions . DEFINITION OF RELIGION . 31.
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The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888 Friedrich Max Müller. Historical Definition . We now come to historical definitions . What I call an historical definition is an account of these very changes which ...
The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888 Friedrich Max Müller. Historical Definition . We now come to historical definitions . What I call an historical definition is an account of these very changes which ...
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