Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... century . - Gottfried Hermann . - Kant on the Chimpanzee . Darwin . Oken . Reaction . Historical school , its true character . - Stanley . - Necessity of an historical study of religion . - Criticisms answered - LECTURE XI . - 239-279 ...
... century . - Gottfried Hermann . - Kant on the Chimpanzee . Darwin . Oken . Reaction . Historical school , its true character . - Stanley . - Necessity of an historical study of religion . - Criticisms answered - LECTURE XI . - 239-279 ...
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... century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the 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 essențial ...
... century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the 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 essențial ...
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... century at all events did not consider the Christianity of Papal Rome essentially the same as that of the Council of Nicaea . There has been change , whether we call it growth or decay , during the nineteen centuries that Christ's ...
... century at all events did not consider the Christianity of Papal Rome essentially the same as that of the Council of Nicaea . There has been change , whether we call it growth or decay , during the nineteen centuries that Christ's ...
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... century , the Science of Religion . Some people profess to be frightened at the very name of the Science of Religion ; but if they ap- proached this new science more closely , they would soon find that there is nothing behind that name ...
... century , the Science of Religion . Some people profess to be frightened at the very name of the Science of Religion ; but if they ap- proached this new science more closely , they would soon find that there is nothing behind that name ...
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... century has not been stationary . When it was first suggested that one of these Gifford readerships might be offered to me , I replied at once to my friends at Edinburgh , Glasgow , and St. Andrews , that I could not become a candidate ...
... century has not been stationary . When it was first suggested that one of these Gifford readerships might be offered to me , I replied at once to my friends at Edinburgh , Glasgow , and St. Andrews , that I could not become a candidate ...
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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,
Page 2 - of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that, if reveal'd. They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd : I knew they lived and mov'd Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves.
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,
Page 531 - Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country ; for I am the Lord your God V