Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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Page viii
... once connected such words as talent , Atlantic , oblation , tolerate , level , and niveau with one and the same root TAL , to lift , by no means a very primitive root1 ; or again , when we see how such words as fire , pity , pure , to ...
... once connected such words as talent , Atlantic , oblation , tolerate , level , and niveau with one and the same root TAL , to lift , by no means a very primitive root1 ; or again , when we see how such words as fire , pity , pure , to ...
Page ix
... once , when we remember that no 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 ...
... once , when we remember that no 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 ...
Page xi
... 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 work of the devil , others again as the PREFACE TO COLLECTED WORKS . xi.
... 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 work of the devil , others again as the PREFACE TO COLLECTED WORKS . xi.
Page xiii
... once started , the affluents which it receives are endless , so that nothing could be a greater mistake than to attempt to trace the whole body of mythology back to one source , to physical causes only . A study of religions has taught ...
... once started , the affluents which it receives are endless , so that nothing could be a greater mistake than to attempt to trace the whole body of mythology back to one source , to physical causes only . A study of religions has taught ...
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... once more , the foundation of this lectureship of Natural Theology seems to me a sign of the times , pregnant with meaning . Lord Gifford , intelligent observer of the world as he was , must have been struck with the immense advances ...
... once more , the foundation of this lectureship of Natural Theology seems to me a sign of the times , pregnant with meaning . Lord Gifford , intelligent observer of the world as he was , must have been struck with the immense advances ...
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