Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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Page 97
... father to a son , ' are by no means unfrequent in the earliest portions of the Rig- veda . We read in the very first hymn of the Rig- veda , ' Be easy of access to us , as a father to his son . ' In the Upanishads , when the different ...
... father to a son , ' are by no means unfrequent in the earliest portions of the Rig- veda . We read in the very first hymn of the Rig- veda , ' Be easy of access to us , as a father to his son . ' In the Upanishads , when the different ...
Page 104
... father , the creator , the Supreme Being , or the Supreme Will . Buddhism , as theoretical , not included under any definition . But in Buddhism - I mean in Southern Buddhism , which ought to be carefully distinguished from Northern ...
... father , the creator , the Supreme Being , or the Supreme Will . Buddhism , as theoretical , not included under any definition . But in Buddhism - I mean in Southern Buddhism , which ought to be carefully distinguished from Northern ...
Page 130
... father , appears in the earliest Aryan prayers , as Dyaushpitâ , Jupiter , Heaven - father , and in the end , even in the language of philosophers 130 LECTURE V.
... father , appears in the earliest Aryan prayers , as Dyaushpitâ , Jupiter , Heaven - father , and in the end , even in the language of philosophers 130 LECTURE V.
Page 135
... father . And when the faithful has performed his sacrificial rite , he expects that heaven will do his part , increase the cattle of the faithful , fertilise his fields and destroy his enemies . In this very finite sphere does the ...
... father . And when the faithful has performed his sacrificial rite , he expects that heaven will do his part , increase the cattle of the faithful , fertilise his fields and destroy his enemies . In this very finite sphere does the ...
Page 139
... that prove that they had no other expression for that concept ? When we now speak of the cause of the world , we could in the childhood of our thought and language have said no more than the father or pro- MY OWN DEFINITION . 139.
... that prove that they had no other expression for that concept ? When we now speak of the cause of the world , we could in the childhood of our thought and language have said no more than the father or pro- MY OWN DEFINITION . 139.
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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