Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, and Company, 1907 - 608 pages |
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... Thought , may seem to have little in common , and yet they were all inspired and directed by one and the same purpose . During the last fifty years I believe I have never lost sight of the pole - star that guided my course from the ...
... Thought , may seem to have little in common , and yet they were all inspired and directed by one and the same purpose . During the last fifty years I believe I have never lost sight of the pole - star that guided my course from the ...
Page viii
... thoughts is best seen when we watch the complete restoration of the broken bridges which once connected such words ... Thought , p . 626 ; No. 47 , tir , tur , tul , & c . languages , has more or less successfully been traced back viii ...
... thoughts is best seen when we watch the complete restoration of the broken bridges which once connected such words ... Thought , p . 626 ; No. 47 , tir , tur , tul , & c . languages , has more or less successfully been traced back viii ...
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... thought , however disguised and however deformed . If what I have written on language has , as I may hope , served to spread some new and truer light on the origin and growth of lan- guage , as the embodiment of human thought , it will ...
... thought , however disguised and however deformed . If what I have written on language has , as I may hope , served to spread some new and truer light on the origin and growth of lan- guage , as the embodiment of human thought , it will ...
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... thought that much of what we now consider as pure gold and true fact , may turn out different from what we hoped for ... thoughts that have become current and have replaced the debased coinage of the past , we ought to be satisfied ...
... thought that much of what we now consider as pure gold and true fact , may turn out different from what we hoped for ... thoughts that have become current and have replaced the debased coinage of the past , we ought to be satisfied ...
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... thought that he had been in- fluenced by the high and noble , yet not very un- common , motives of a man who wishes to see his own peculiar views of religion perpetuated for the benefit of mankind . He would have ranked among the pious ...
... thought that he had been in- fluenced by the high and noble , yet not very un- common , motives of a man who wishes to see his own peculiar views of religion perpetuated for the benefit of mankind . He would have ranked among the pious ...
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