Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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... words as fire , pity , pure , to count , deputy , to purge , and to purify , had all their life - spring from one and the same source . What such a discovery means will be understood when we remember that every word in Sanskrit , one of ...
... words as fire , pity , pure , to count , deputy , to purge , and to purify , had all their life - spring from one and the same source . What such a discovery means will be understood when we remember that every word in Sanskrit , one of ...
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... word - makers , unless we suppose that man was in possession of reason before he was in possession of lan- guage or of words as the exponents of general ideas , however primitive and imperfect . Lan- guage , we have learnt , was ...
... word - makers , unless we suppose that man was in possession of reason before he was in possession of lan- guage or of words as the exponents of general ideas , however primitive and imperfect . Lan- guage , we have learnt , was ...
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... words . - Communica- tion , not language . - Images . - Involuntary and voluntary sounds . - The Bow - wow , Pooh - pooh , and Yo - heho theories .-- Roots . - Words derived from conceptual roots . - Are concepts possible without words ...
... words . - Communica- tion , not language . - Images . - Involuntary and voluntary sounds . - The Bow - wow , Pooh - pooh , and Yo - heho theories .-- Roots . - Words derived from conceptual roots . - Are concepts possible without words ...
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... word , that is , of a going back to the original form . Why should that be so ? Why should there be pro- gress in everything else , only not in religion ? The usual answer that religion rests on a divine and miraculous revelation , and ...
... word , that is , of a going back to the original form . Why should that be so ? Why should there be pro- gress in everything else , only not in religion ? The usual answer that religion rests on a divine and miraculous revelation , and ...
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... word till we arrive at elements which resist further analysis . These elements we call roots , and leave them , for the present , as ultimate facts . In tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see ...
... word till we arrive at elements which resist further analysis . These elements we call roots , and leave them , for the present , as ultimate facts . In tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see ...
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