Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... meaning . This lectureship , with three others in the Univer- sities of Edinburgh , St. Andrews , and Aberdeen , was founded , as you know , by the late Lord Gifford , a Scotch lawyer , who by ability , hard work , and self- denial had ...
... meaning . This lectureship , with three others in the Univer- sities of Edinburgh , St. Andrews , and Aberdeen , was founded , as you know , by the late Lord Gifford , a Scotch lawyer , who by ability , hard work , and self- denial had ...
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... era , it is said , and not without a certain kind of pride , that our religion has remained unchanged , at least in all its essential elements . Whether this is really so , depends on the meaning LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 7.
... era , it is said , and not without a certain kind of pride , that our religion has remained unchanged , at least in all its essential elements . Whether this is really so , depends on the meaning LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 7.
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... meaning which we attach to the essential elements of religion , and in religion , more than in anything else , essential elements are but too often treated as non - essential , and , what is worse , non - essential as essential . The ...
... meaning which we attach to the essential elements of religion , and in religion , more than in anything else , essential elements are but too often treated as non - essential , and , what is worse , non - essential as essential . The ...
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... meaning . Lord Gifford , intelligent observer of the world as he was , must have been struck with the immense advances which all other sciences had been making during his life- time , and the increasing benefits which they had conferred ...
... meaning . Lord Gifford , intelligent observer of the world as he was , must have been struck with the immense advances which all other sciences had been making during his life- time , and the increasing benefits which they had conferred ...
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... meaning of that term . Any- how , I hope I shall best carry out the intentions of the founder of this lectureship by devoting these lectures , firstly , to a careful collection of the facts of religion ; secondly , to an intercomparison ...
... meaning of that term . Any- how , I hope I shall best carry out the intentions of the founder of this lectureship by devoting these lectures , firstly , to a careful collection of the facts of religion ; secondly , to an intercomparison ...
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