Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... changed the whole face of the earth , while our philosophy , our laws , even Our morality , bear the impress of the nineteenth century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the beginning of our era , it ...
... changed the whole face of the earth , while our philosophy , our laws , even Our morality , bear the impress of the nineteenth century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the beginning of our era , it ...
Page 36
... changed from century to century , often from genera- tion to generation ; nay , like the expression of the human face , the expression of a word also may change from moment to moment . In one sense our historical definition may be ...
... changed from century to century , often from genera- tion to generation ; nay , like the expression of the human face , the expression of a word also may change from moment to moment . In one sense our historical definition may be ...
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... changed the Jewish for the Christian religion , that is to say , that he has changed his own religious convictions . But we may also say that a person is studying the Buddhist re- ligion , either by reading the sacred books of the ...
... changed the Jewish for the Christian religion , that is to say , that he has changed his own religious convictions . But we may also say that a person is studying the Buddhist re- ligion , either by reading the sacred books of the ...
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... actions , we have a definition of the kind required . ' ( Theism , p . 32. ) But can belief in what is inaccessible to our senses be rightly called knowledge ? ful Being , is changed at once into a perfect 70 LECTURE III .
... actions , we have a definition of the kind required . ' ( Theism , p . 32. ) But can belief in what is inaccessible to our senses be rightly called knowledge ? ful Being , is changed at once into a perfect 70 LECTURE III .
Page 71
... changed into a feeling of union , trust , and love , and he begins to understand what was called of old the liberty of the children of God . So again , when the Agnostic says that we cannot know God , when he calls God the Unknown , nay ...
... changed into a feeling of union , trust , and love , and he begins to understand what was called of old the liberty of the children of God . So again , when the Agnostic says that we cannot know God , when he calls God the Unknown , nay ...
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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