Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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Page vii
... animals . It is extraordinary that in their zeal for orthodoxy these men should have forgotten the very words of the Old Testament , that Whatever Adam called every living creature , that was the name thereof . ' All such hallucina ...
... animals . It is extraordinary that in their zeal for orthodoxy these men should have forgotten the very words of the Old Testament , that Whatever Adam called every living creature , that was the name thereof . ' All such hallucina ...
Page ix
... animal has yet been dis- covered in the whole world being in possession of a language , meaning by language words that were made of roots expressive of general ideas . It is language , thus understood , as built up on roots and on ...
... animal has yet been dis- covered in the whole world being in possession of a language , meaning by language words that were made of roots expressive of general ideas . It is language , thus understood , as built up on roots and on ...
Page 82
... animals , or , if possible , even on a slightly lower 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 ...
... animals , or , if possible , even on a slightly lower 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 ...
Page 83
... animals . I have quoted this case on several occasions , not in order to question Darwin's honesty , but simply to illustrate one cause of error to which all human observations are liable - a disposition to see what we expect and wish ...
... animals . I have quoted this case on several occasions , not in order to question Darwin's honesty , but simply to illustrate one cause of error to which all human observations are liable - a disposition to see what we expect and wish ...
Page 88
... animals possess something like religious feelings , then a sigh , a tear , a sudden silence , an involuntary interjection , or even a curse , become proof positive of the existence of germs of religion , though in a most rudimentary ...
... animals possess something like religious feelings , then a sigh , a tear , a sudden silence , an involuntary interjection , or even a curse , become proof positive of the existence of germs of religion , though in a most rudimentary ...
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