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... beginning of our century . - Gottfried Hermann . - Kant on the Chimpanzee . Darwin . - Oken . - Historical school , its true character . - Stanley . - Necessity of an historical study of religion . - Criticisms answered ― ― - Reaction ...
... beginning of our century . - Gottfried Hermann . - Kant on the Chimpanzee . Darwin . - Oken . - Historical school , its true character . - Stanley . - Necessity of an historical study of religion . - Criticisms answered ― ― - Reaction ...
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... beginning of our era , it is said , and not without a certain kind of pride , that our religion has remained unchanged , at least in all its essential elements , Whether this is really so , depends on the meaning LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 7.
... beginning of our era , it is said , and not without a certain kind of pride , that our religion has remained unchanged , at least in all its essential elements , Whether this is really so , depends on the meaning LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 7.
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... beginning of a new life . Some of the work on which I was engaged had to be thrown overboard ; but I had now an opportunity , and a splendid opportunity , for summing up the whole work of my life . Forgive me if , for a short while , I ...
... beginning of a new life . Some of the work on which I was engaged had to be thrown overboard ; but I had now an opportunity , and a splendid opportunity , for summing up the whole work of my life . Forgive me if , for a short while , I ...
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... idea took complete possession of me , and young as I was , and , I ought to 1 Upanishads , translated by Max Müller , vol . i . p . lxi . Sacred Books of the East , add , reckless as I was , instead of beginning 18 LECTURE I.
... idea took complete possession of me , and young as I was , and , I ought to 1 Upanishads , translated by Max Müller , vol . i . p . lxi . Sacred Books of the East , add , reckless as I was , instead of beginning 18 LECTURE I.
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Friedrich Max Müller. add , reckless as I was , instead of beginning my work as a lecturer in one of the German Universities , I went to Paris to attend Burnouf's lectures , and to copy and collate the MSS . of the Veda and its volu ...
Friedrich Max Müller. add , reckless as I was , instead of beginning my work as a lecturer in one of the German Universities , I went to Paris to attend Burnouf's lectures , and to copy and collate the MSS . of the Veda and its volu ...
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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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