Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... theories would remain without a solid foundation till the whole of the Rig- veda had been published . This idea took complete possession of me , and young as I was , and , I ought to 1 Upanishads , translated by Max Müller , in Sacred ...
... theories would remain without a solid foundation till the whole of the Rig- veda had been published . This idea took complete possession of me , and young as I was , and , I ought to 1 Upanishads , translated by Max Müller , in Sacred ...
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... theory held by the most eminent philosophers from Plato to Hegel ' , namely , that Logos is the same thing , whether ... theories on language , mythology , and thought ; and the work which I began at Leipzig in 1843 , will , if my life ...
... theory held by the most eminent philosophers from Plato to Hegel ' , namely , that Logos is the same thing , whether ... theories on language , mythology , and thought ; and the work which I began at Leipzig in 1843 , will , if my life ...
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... nay , without its practical purposes , religion would never have been religion . 1 See Professor Flint's remarks in his Baird Lectures on Theism , p . 210 . It might have been theory or dogma , it might EXAMINATION OF DEFINITIONS . 63.
... nay , without its practical purposes , religion would never have been religion . 1 See Professor Flint's remarks in his Baird Lectures on Theism , p . 210 . It might have been theory or dogma , it might EXAMINATION OF DEFINITIONS . 63.
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... theory or dogma , it might have grown into a system of philosophy , but never into a religion , whether manifested by outward worship or by inward piety . Religion as sentiment or knowledge . Most philosophers in attempting to define ...
... theory or dogma , it might have grown into a system of philosophy , but never into a religion , whether manifested by outward worship or by inward piety . Religion as sentiment or knowledge . Most philosophers in attempting to define ...
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... theory , which sounds almost incredible in the nineteenth century after Christ , but which is put forward and defended with so much earnestness and so much learning that it requires and deserves a careful answer . When philo- sophers ...
... theory , which sounds almost incredible in the nineteenth century after Christ , but which is put forward and defended with so much earnestness and so much learning that it requires and deserves a careful answer . When philo- sophers ...
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