Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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Page vii
... divine gift , or as the final outcome of the coughing and sneezing , the roaring and sighing of human beings , nay of the grunting of certain animals . It is extraordinary that in their zeal for orthodoxy these men should have forgotten ...
... divine gift , or as the final outcome of the coughing and sneezing , the roaring and sighing of human beings , nay of the grunting of certain animals . It is extraordinary that in their zeal for orthodoxy these men should have forgotten ...
Page xiv
... divine thought , however disguised and however deformed . If what I have written on language has , as I may hope , served to spread some new and truer light on the origin and growth of lan- guage , as the embodiment of human thought ...
... divine thought , however disguised and however deformed . If what I have written on language has , as I may hope , served to spread some new and truer light on the origin and growth of lan- guage , as the embodiment of human thought ...
Page xv
... Divine . This is true religion , because natural religion , based on that touch with God through nature , which has been and will always remain the life - spring of all true religion , however much it may have been hidden for a time by ...
... Divine . This is true religion , because natural religion , based on that touch with God through nature , which has been and will always remain the life - spring of all true religion , however much it may have been hidden for a time by ...
Page xviii
... divine words and works , no divine creation . These Universalia were not , as some philosophers sup- posed , made by us by means of abstraction and generalisation , as little as we made the nuggets of gold which have been lying for ...
... divine words and works , no divine creation . These Universalia were not , as some philosophers sup- posed , made by us by means of abstraction and generalisation , as little as we made the nuggets of gold which have been lying for ...
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... divine and miraculous revelation , and therefore cannot be im- proved , is neither true nor honest . And to use such an argument in this place would be disloyal to the memory of the Founder of this lectureship , who wished religion to ...
... divine and miraculous revelation , and therefore cannot be im- proved , is neither true nor honest . And to use such an argument in this place would be disloyal to the memory of the Founder of this lectureship , who wished religion to ...
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