Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number of meanings , springing from the same stem . And among these earliest ramifications we meet with a number of names familiar to us from what is called the mythology of ...
... stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number of meanings , springing from the same stem . And among these earliest ramifications we meet with a number of names familiar to us from what is called the mythology of ...
Page 67
... stages of his life , the four âsramas . In Spinoza's time , and in the society by which he was surrounded , such a ... stage of its growth . This was the man who not more than 200 years ago was considered the most dangerous heretic by ...
... stages of his life , the four âsramas . In Spinoza's time , and in the society by which he was surrounded , such a ... stage of its growth . This was the man who not more than 200 years ago was considered the most dangerous heretic by ...
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... stage than that reached by some of the higher animals . When he visited the coasts of South America he thought he had found in the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego what he was look- ing for , and he accordingly described these people as ...
... stage than that reached by some of the higher animals . When he visited the coasts of South America he thought he had found in the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego what he was look- ing for , and he accordingly described these people as ...
Page 113
... stage of enlightenment , are supposed to possess the power of remembering their former states of existence ; and many of the most touching legends in the Buddhist canon are the recollections of his I former existences by Buddha himself ...
... stage of enlightenment , are supposed to possess the power of remembering their former states of existence ; and many of the most touching legends in the Buddhist canon are the recollections of his I former existences by Buddha himself ...
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... stage of staring or dreaming , when we do what no one can do for us , namely , combine the percepts of sensations into concepts by discovering something they share in common , and embody that common property in a sign or a name ...
... stage of staring or dreaming , when we do what no one can do for us , namely , combine the percepts of sensations into concepts by discovering something they share in common , and embody that common property in a sign or a name ...
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Page 567 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.