Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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Page viii
... morals , being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted on , is the means of man's highest wellbeing , and the security of his upward progress , I have resolved , from the residue ' of my estate as aforesaid ...
... morals , being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted on , is the means of man's highest wellbeing , and the security of his upward progress , I have resolved , from the residue ' of my estate as aforesaid ...
Page ix
... Morals , and of all Obligations and Duties thence arising . ' / The Senatus Academicus in each of the four Universities , or the bodies substituted to them re- spectively , shall be the patrons of the several lectureships , and the ...
... Morals , and of all Obligations and Duties thence arising . ' / The Senatus Academicus in each of the four Universities , or the bodies substituted to them re- spectively , shall be the patrons of the several lectureships , and the ...
Page xv
... Moral influences of physical phenomena.- Vedic prayers . - Early morality . - Moral influence of ancestral spirits . -Ancestral law in China . - Moral influence of psycho- logical deities . - Temple to Mens . - Eros and Psyche.- Con ...
... Moral influences of physical phenomena.- Vedic prayers . - Early morality . - Moral influence of ancestral spirits . -Ancestral law in China . - Moral influence of psycho- logical deities . - Temple to Mens . - Eros and Psyche.- Con ...
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... Moral germs . - Ahanâ = Athene .-- Daphne.- Benfey's theory of Athene LECTURE XVII . THE GENEALOGICAL SCHOOL . - PAGE 411-447 Identification and comparison . - Sarad and Ceres . - Mytho logical etymologies . - Changes in the character ...
... Moral germs . - Ahanâ = Athene .-- Daphne.- Benfey's theory of Athene LECTURE XVII . THE GENEALOGICAL SCHOOL . - PAGE 411-447 Identification and comparison . - Sarad and Ceres . - Mytho logical etymologies . - Changes in the character ...
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... morals , -being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted on , is the means of man's highest well - being , and the security of his upward progress , I have re- solved ... to institute and found ...
... morals , -being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted on , is the means of man's highest well - being , and the security of his upward progress , I have re- solved ... to institute and found ...
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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