Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... speak through our words faintly , and not always , rightly . Allow me to quote some extracts from this remark- able Will : - ' I , Adam Gifford , sometime one of the Senators of the College of Justice , Scotland , having fully and ...
... speak through our words faintly , and not always , rightly . Allow me to quote some extracts from this remark- able Will : - ' I , Adam Gifford , sometime one of the Senators of the College of Justice , Scotland , having fully and ...
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... speak of myself . I know it is very wrong , and may sound very selfish . But I am anxious to explain to you what the main outline of the work of my life has been , and why I hope that in these lectures I may be able to gather up what ...
... speak of myself . I know it is very wrong , and may sound very selfish . But I am anxious to explain to you what the main outline of the work of my life has been , and why I hope that in these lectures I may be able to gather up what ...
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... speak of Comparative Language ; neither ought we to speak of Comparative Religion . It is different with mythology . Mythology may be used , not only for a collection of myths , but likewise for a scientific treatment of them , and in ...
... speak of Comparative Language ; neither ought we to speak of Comparative Religion . It is different with mythology . Mythology may be used , not only for a collection of myths , but likewise for a scientific treatment of them , and in ...
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... speaking and acting from our own holy inspiration , if we do not at least feel all that we feel as an immediate in- fluence of the universe , and yet discover in it some- thing that is our own , that cannot be imitated , but can prove ...
... speaking and acting from our own holy inspiration , if we do not at least feel all that we feel as an immediate in- fluence of the universe , and yet discover in it some- thing that is our own , that cannot be imitated , but can prove ...
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... 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.
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