Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... acts . - Some acts conceived as passive . Subjective acts predicated of other agents . Subjective acts predicated of objects . - Dynamic stage . -Animism . — Egypt . - Semitic names . — Finland . - Hidatsas in North America . - Growth ...
... acts . - Some acts conceived as passive . Subjective acts predicated of other agents . Subjective acts predicated of objects . - Dynamic stage . -Animism . — Egypt . - Semitic names . — Finland . - Hidatsas in North America . - Growth ...
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... acts , of cult and ceremony . Thus Cicero distinctly explains religio by cultus deorum , and he declares " that the religion of the Romans is divided into sacra , 1 Liv . ii . 62 , ' Ut numine aliquo defensa castra oppugnare iterum ...
... acts , of cult and ceremony . Thus Cicero distinctly explains religio by cultus deorum , and he declares " that the religion of the Romans is divided into sacra , 1 Liv . ii . 62 , ' Ut numine aliquo defensa castra oppugnare iterum ...
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... Acts of the Apostles , xxvi . 5 , we read : ' I lived a Pharisee after the most straitest sect of our religion . ' Here religion , in the Vulgate , religio , corresponds to the Greek Opηokela , which means outward worship of the gods ...
... Acts of the Apostles , xxvi . 5 , we read : ' I lived a Pharisee after the most straitest sect of our religion . ' Here religion , in the Vulgate , religio , corresponds to the Greek Opηokela , which means outward worship of the gods ...
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... Acts , xxv . 19 , they had certain questions against him of their own supersti- tion , and of one Jesus , which was dead , whom Paul affirmed to be alive , we have in Greek δεισιδαιμονία , which really means the fear of the gods , and ...
... Acts , xxv . 19 , they had certain questions against him of their own supersti- tion , and of one Jesus , which was dead , whom Paul affirmed to be alive , we have in Greek δεισιδαιμονία , which really means the fear of the gods , and ...
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... acts are stimulated either by feeling or by knowledge , by percepts or by concepts . A feeling of pain makes us act in one way , a feeling of pleasure in another . A mere perception of distance makes the crow fly direct , that is by the ...
... acts are stimulated either by feeling or by knowledge , by percepts or by concepts . A feeling of pain makes us act in one way , a feeling of pleasure in another . A mere perception of distance makes the crow fly direct , that is by the ...
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Page 111 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Page 145 - to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky. That was called A-diti, the un-bound, the unbounded ; one might almost say, but for fear of misunderstandings,
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Page 609 - 6d, . . , The earliest philosophical and religious poem of India, It has been paraphrased in Arnold's 'Song Celestial! VOL. X. The Dhammapada, Translated from Pali by F. MAX MULLER; and The Sutta-Nipata, Translated from Pali by V. FAUSBOLL ; being Canonical Books of the Buddhists. 8vo., cloth,
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