Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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Page vi
... 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 outcome of a ...
... 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 outcome of a ...
Page vii
... human mind . This silent faith which supported the great thinkers of the last century , has in our time become a reality , and has been con- firmed by the best students in nearly every branch of historical as well as of physical ...
... human mind . This silent faith which supported the great thinkers of the last century , has in our time become a reality , and has been con- firmed by the best students in nearly every branch of historical as well as of physical ...
Page x
... human workmanship , that they might more truly be likened to the stones found on the North Downs of Kent by Mr. Harrison which tell us nothing by their shape but that at one time they must have been used by human hands . Whatever may be ...
... human workmanship , that they might more truly be likened to the stones found on the North Downs of Kent by Mr. Harrison which tell us nothing by their shape but that at one time they must have been used by human hands . Whatever may be ...
Page xi
... human mind as realised in language , from its fossil period onward to the days of Shakespeare , it has taught us at the same time that this so - called growth or development of language was the work of myriads of human beings , building ...
... human mind as realised in language , from its fossil period onward to the days of Shakespeare , it has taught us at the same time that this so - called growth or development of language was the work of myriads of human beings , building ...
Page xv
... human beings themselves , claimed for themselves the right to assign to their own religion a superhuman or miraculous origin . What is natural is divine , what is supernatural is human . That all re- ligions contain some truth was the ...
... human beings themselves , claimed for themselves the right to assign to their own religion a superhuman or miraculous origin . What is natural is divine , what is supernatural is human . That all re- ligions contain some truth was the ...
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