Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... reason in its endeavours to gain a truer and purer idea of the Divine . A veil will always remain . No astronomer ventures to look at the sun without darkening his lens , and man will have to look at what is beyond through a glass ...
... reason in its endeavours to gain a truer and purer idea of the Divine . A veil will always remain . No astronomer ventures to look at the sun without darkening his lens , and man will have to look at what is beyond through a glass ...
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... reason that the study of Vedic literature had at that time been entirely neglected in India ; that the Directors of the late East India Company thought it unfair that the MSS . of the Rig - veda should be sent to the Imperial Academy at ...
... reason that the study of Vedic literature had at that time been entirely neglected in India ; that the Directors of the late East India Company thought it unfair that the MSS . of the Rig - veda should be sent to the Imperial Academy at ...
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... reasons which those who know any- thing of the present state of Vedic scholarship will readily understand . The accumulation of material was too great for a single and no longer a young scholar . The one scholar in Germany who by his ...
... reasons which those who know any- thing of the present state of Vedic scholarship will readily understand . The accumulation of material was too great for a single and no longer a young scholar . The one scholar in Germany who by his ...
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... reason , neither is there any reason without language . I hope to treat this question more fully in some of my later lectures . At present I only wished to show what is the red thread which holds my literary work together , and to ...
... reason , neither is there any reason without language . I hope to treat this question more fully in some of my later lectures . At present I only wished to show what is the red thread which holds my literary work together , and to ...
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... reason for changing it . The Greek word theologos was used originally in a different sense . Thus Homer and Hesiod were called theologi ( Herodotus , ii . 53 ) , not in the modern sense of theologians , but as conversant with the origin ...
... reason for changing it . The Greek word theologos was used originally in a different sense . Thus Homer and Hesiod were called theologi ( Herodotus , ii . 53 ) , not in the modern sense of theologians , but as conversant with the origin ...
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