Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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... present century by the discoveries of ancient monuments , both architectural and literary , by the brilliant decipherment of un- 1 M. M.'s Translation of the Hitopadesa , Leipzig , 1844 . 28180 known languages and the patient interpreta ...
... present century by the discoveries of ancient monuments , both architectural and literary , by the brilliant decipherment of un- 1 M. M.'s Translation of the Hitopadesa , Leipzig , 1844 . 28180 known languages and the patient interpreta ...
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... present moment it may truly be said that what is meant by evolution or continuous development has now been proved to exist in the historical growth of the human mind quite as clearly as in any of the realms of objective nature which ...
... present moment it may truly be said that what is meant by evolution or continuous development has now been proved to exist in the historical growth of the human mind quite as clearly as in any of the realms of objective nature which ...
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... present day- for we can know little of them before they had entered into the first stage of a social and civilised life - has made us acquainted with folklore often strikingly like that of the Aryan races , and with religious ideas ...
... present day- for we can know little of them before they had entered into the first stage of a social and civilised life - has made us acquainted with folklore often strikingly like that of the Aryan races , and with religious ideas ...
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... present century will understand what I mean by saying that the whole history of the world has been changed by them , that not only have ever so many base- less fabrics been swept away , but the study of man or of mankind has assumed a ...
... present century will understand what I mean by saying that the whole history of the world has been changed by them , that not only have ever so many base- less fabrics been swept away , but the study of man or of mankind has assumed a ...
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... present or to the last century ; and if the veil has as yet been but little withdrawn from the Holy of Holies , those who come after us will have learnt at least this one lesson , that this lifting of the veil which was supposed to be ...
... 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 will have learnt at least this one lesson , that this lifting of the veil which was supposed to be ...
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