Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... object of religion must be defined . - Fichte on atheism . - Goethe and Lavater . - Different classes of defini- tions . - Practical religion . Kant . - Caird . - Pfleiderer . - Marti- neau . - Schenkel and Newman . - Theoretical ...
... object of religion must be defined . - Fichte on atheism . - Goethe and Lavater . - Different classes of defini- tions . - Practical religion . Kant . - Caird . - Pfleiderer . - Marti- neau . - Schenkel and Newman . - Theoretical ...
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... objects.- Trees.- Mountains . — Rivers.- Earth.— Clouds , stars , moon , sun , sky . - Demi - gods and great gods . - The infinite in man as an object . - The something behind man.— The infinite behind man . - Religious ideas springing ...
... objects.- Trees.- Mountains . — Rivers.- Earth.— Clouds , stars , moon , sun , sky . - Demi - gods and great gods . - The infinite in man as an object . - The something behind man.— The infinite behind man . - Religious ideas springing ...
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... objects . - Dynamic stage . -Animism . — Egypt . - Semitic names . — Finland . - Hidatsas in North America . - Growth of language . - Causality . - Objections answered . - Gender . - Dyaus , as a masculine . B 385-410 LECTURE XVI ...
... objects . - Dynamic stage . -Animism . — Egypt . - Semitic names . — Finland . - Hidatsas in North America . - Growth of language . - Causality . - Objections answered . - Gender . - Dyaus , as a masculine . B 385-410 LECTURE XVI ...
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... object of the second volume of my Lectures on the Science of Language , to establish the fact that mythology , in its true sense , was an inevitable phase in the development of the human mind , LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . & 21.
... object of the second volume of my Lectures on the Science of Language , to establish the fact that mythology , in its true sense , was an inevitable phase in the development of the human mind , LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . & 21.
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... objects I had in view , that Science of Mythology is now as firmly established as the Science of Language1 , and I can honestly say that nothing has strengthened my faith in it so much as a gallant and powerful charge lately made ...
... objects I had in view , that Science of Mythology is now as firmly established as the Science of Language1 , and I can honestly say that nothing has strengthened my faith in it so much as a gallant and powerful charge lately made ...
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