Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... seems to have given offence , and those who knew him , little suspected this hard - working lawyer of having his whole soul engrossed by Spinoza's Ethics or the metaphysics of religion . And yet when his Will was opened , the one thing ...
... seems to have given offence , and those who knew him , little suspected this hard - working lawyer of having his whole soul engrossed by Spinoza's Ethics or the metaphysics of religion . And yet when his Will was opened , the one thing ...
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... seem really to forget that they are contradicting them- selves . They hold the Old as well as the New Testament to have ... seems to sound that one deep note , ' Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time - But I say unto you ...
... seem really to forget that they are contradicting them- selves . They hold the Old as well as the New Testament to have ... seems to sound that one deep note , ' Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time - But I say unto you ...
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... seems to me a sign of the times , pregnant with 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 ...
... seems to me a sign of the times , pregnant with 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 ...
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... seem strange to some that Lord Gifford should have expressed a wish that the Science of Religion should be treated as a strictly natural science . He may have thought of the method of the natural sciences only ; but it seems to me not ...
... seem strange to some that Lord Gifford should have expressed a wish that the Science of Religion should be treated as a strictly natural science . He may have thought of the method of the natural sciences only ; but it seems to me not ...
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... seems to me the most remarkable feature of his bequest . Lord Gifford was evidently what the world would call a devout and religious man , and you have heard how in his Will he expressed his conviction that a true knowledge of God is ...
... seems to me the most remarkable feature of his bequest . Lord Gifford was evidently what the world would call a devout and religious man , and you have heard how in his Will he expressed his conviction that a true knowledge of God is ...
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