Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... trace them back to their earliest forms , and classify them , and then analyse every word till we arrive at elements ... tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number ...
... trace them back to their earliest forms , and classify them , and then analyse every word till we arrive at elements ... tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number ...
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... Tracing the history of religio , we find it used in Latin in its original and wider sense of regard or respect , in such expressions as religio jurisjurandi , reverence for an oath , as distinguished from metus deorum , fear of the gods ...
... Tracing the history of religio , we find it used in Latin in its original and wider sense of regard or respect , in such expressions as religio jurisjurandi , reverence for an oath , as distinguished from metus deorum , fear of the gods ...
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... trace whatever has to be defined back to one genus proximum , not to two ; that if religion is a mode of knowing God , well and good ; but that it cannot be at the same time a mode of worshipping God . This may be true in logic , but ...
... trace whatever has to be defined back to one genus proximum , not to two ; that if religion is a mode of knowing God , well and good ; but that it cannot be at the same time a mode of worshipping God . This may be true in logic , but ...
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... tracing religion to two proxima genera instead of one , if fault it be , would have its historical justification in the fact that active religion , whether worship or morality , is , in its beginning at all events , inseparable from ...
... tracing religion to two proxima genera instead of one , if fault it be , would have its historical justification in the fact that active religion , whether worship or morality , is , in its beginning at all events , inseparable from ...
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... trace back religion to a feeling of admiration , or , as he expresses it , to a craving for an ideal object . So long as human life is insufficient , ' he writes , ' to satisfy human aspirations , so long there will be a craving for ...
... trace back religion to a feeling of admiration , or , as he expresses it , to a craving for an ideal object . So long as human life is insufficient , ' he writes , ' to satisfy human aspirations , so long there will be a craving for ...
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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.