Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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Page vi
... growth of the human mind quite as clearly as in any of the realms of objective nature which Darwin chose for the special field of his brilliant labours . Language , mythology , religion , nay even philosophy can now be proved to be the ...
... growth of the human mind quite as clearly as in any of the realms of objective nature which Darwin chose for the special field of his brilliant labours . Language , mythology , religion , nay even philosophy can now be proved to be the ...
Page xi
... growth of language were held at the same time on the origin and growth of mythology . Some discovered in it more or less defaced survivals of a primeval revelation once granted to the whole human race ; others treated it boldly as the ...
... growth of language were held at the same time on the origin and growth of mythology . Some discovered in it more or less defaced survivals of a primeval revelation once granted to the whole human race ; others treated it boldly as the ...
Page xiv
... growth of myths as in the growth of language . All these discoveries and conquests of un- known regions would have been impossible without the help of such ancient and formerly inaccessible documents as the Veda , Avesta , the Kalevala ...
... growth of myths as in the growth of language . All these discoveries and conquests of un- known regions would have been impossible without the help of such ancient and formerly inaccessible documents as the Veda , Avesta , the Kalevala ...
Page xix
... growth and evolution in history as well as in nature is no blame , and it has proved no loss to the present or to the last century ; and if the veil has as yet been but little withdrawn from the Holy of Holies , those who come after us ...
... growth and evolution in history as well as in nature is no blame , and it has proved no loss to the present or to the last century ; and if the veil has as yet been but little withdrawn from the Holy of Holies , those who come after us ...
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... Growth of Religion . ' I might have left out what to some of my readers will seem to be mere repetition , but I could not have done so without spoiling the whole plan of my lectures . Nor would it PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
... Growth of Religion . ' I might have left out what to some of my readers will seem to be mere repetition , but I could not have done so without spoiling the whole plan of my lectures . Nor would it PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
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