Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... object of religion must be defined . - Fichte on atheism . - Goethe and Lavater . - Different classes of defini- tions . - Practical religion . Kant . - Caird . - Pfleiderer . - Marti- neau . - Schenkel and Newman . -Theoretical ...
... object of religion must be defined . - Fichte on atheism . - Goethe and Lavater . - Different classes of defini- tions . - Practical religion . Kant . - Caird . - Pfleiderer . - Marti- neau . - Schenkel and Newman . -Theoretical ...
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... object of the second volume of my Lectures on the Science of Language , to establish the fact that mythology , in its true sense , was an inevitable phase in the development of the human mind , LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 21.
... object of the second volume of my Lectures on the Science of Language , to establish the fact that mythology , in its true sense , was an inevitable phase in the development of the human mind , LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 21.
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... objects I had in view , that Science of Mythology is now as firmly established as the Science of Language1 , and I can honestly say that nothing has strengthened my faith in it so much as a gallant and powerful charge lately made ...
... objects I had in view , that Science of Mythology is now as firmly established as the Science of Language1 , and I can honestly say that nothing has strengthened my faith in it so much as a gallant and powerful charge lately made ...
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... object to such questions , and consider any attempt to answer them as mere waste of time . Now it is quite true that there is a kind of public opinion , which for all ordi- nary purposes settles the meaning of words , and by which we ...
... object to such questions , and consider any attempt to answer them as mere waste of time . Now it is quite true that there is a kind of public opinion , which for all ordi- nary purposes settles the meaning of words , and by which we ...
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... object to be named was first conceived , but no more . We know , for in- stance , that deus in Latin represents the Sanskrit deva , perhaps also the Greek eós , though neither of these etymologies is in strict accordance with phonetic ...
... object to be named was first conceived , but no more . We know , for in- stance , that deus in Latin represents the Sanskrit deva , perhaps also the Greek eós , though neither of these etymologies is in strict accordance with phonetic ...
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