Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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Page 32
... logical method of settling their genus and their specific difference , in what exact sense they ought to be em- ployed in future . Let us now see how these three kinds of definition have been applied to the word with which we have 32 ...
... logical method of settling their genus and their specific difference , in what exact sense they ought to be em- ployed in future . Let us now see how these three kinds of definition have been applied to the word with which we have 32 ...
Page 37
... logical or etymological definition . So long as the word religio remains on Roman soil , all changes of meaning seem perfectly intelligible , if only we take into account the influence of those forces which determine the growth of ...
... logical or etymological definition . So long as the word religio remains on Roman soil , all changes of meaning seem perfectly intelligible , if only we take into account the influence of those forces which determine the growth of ...
Page 44
... logical meaning of religion , but that is not binding ; and we have the various historical meanings of reli- gion , and they again are not binding . What criteria then can we discover for testing the truth of what I call the dogmatic ...
... logical meaning of religion , but that is not binding ; and we have the various historical meanings of reli- gion , and they again are not binding . What criteria then can we discover for testing the truth of what I call the dogmatic ...
Page 49
... can hardly be avoided , and we have to make allowance for it in all branches of knowledge . We speak of logic , meaning either the laws of thought as E we know and follow them ourselves , or a body DEFINITION OF RELIGION . 49.
... can hardly be avoided , and we have to make allowance for it in all branches of knowledge . We speak of logic , meaning either the laws of thought as E we know and follow them ourselves , or a body DEFINITION OF RELIGION . 49.
Page 53
... logic , language ought to be , was replaced by Comparative Grammar , which showed what language really had been , the study of Natural or General Theology also had to make room for the study of Comparative Theology , or what may be ...
... logic , language ought to be , was replaced by Comparative Grammar , which showed what language really had been , the study of Natural or General Theology also had to make room for the study of Comparative Theology , or what may be ...
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