Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... imagine , who would claim even the Science of Language as an exclusively historical science . All depends here as elsewhere on a proper definition of the terms which we employ . If we once clearly understand what we mean by the natural ...
... imagine , who would claim even the Science of Language as an exclusively historical science . All depends here as elsewhere on a proper definition of the terms which we employ . If we once clearly understand what we mean by the natural ...
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... imagine that an etymology is in itself a definition . This was an impression which prevailed widely in early times 2 , before the true principles of etymology had been discovered ; and it prevails even now , though there is no longer ...
... imagine that an etymology is in itself a definition . This was an impression which prevailed widely in early times 2 , before the true principles of etymology had been discovered ; and it prevails even now , though there is no longer ...
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... imagine that this could help us to understand the concept of God in the mind of such a thinker as Pascal , would be absurd . can never be too grateful , if we can discover the germinal idea of a word , if we can prove , for instance ...
... imagine that this could help us to understand the concept of God in the mind of such a thinker as Pascal , would be absurd . can never be too grateful , if we can discover the germinal idea of a word , if we can prove , for instance ...
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... imagine such a state , and though I do not like to contradict collectors of psychological curiosities who maintain they have actually experienced it , I hold myself as strongly as ever that not until we have a name and concept of sky ...
... imagine such a state , and though I do not like to contradict collectors of psychological curiosities who maintain they have actually experienced it , I hold myself as strongly as ever that not until we have a name and concept of sky ...
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... imagine that the Veda was composed by the first man who escaped from the glacial period , or by the first poet who could stammer forth human language . Why will people always imagine the impossible to be possible ? However , it was but ...
... imagine that the Veda was composed by the first man who escaped from the glacial period , or by the first poet who could stammer forth human language . Why will people always imagine the impossible to be possible ? However , it was but ...
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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