Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... philosophers 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 ...
... philosophers 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 ...
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... philosopher ; and his lectures on the philosophy of mythology and religion opened many new views to my mind . But , though I admired the depth and the wide range of his ideas , I could not help being struck by what seemed to me his un ...
... philosopher ; and his lectures on the philosophy of mythology and religion opened many new views to my mind . But , though I admired the depth and the wide range of his ideas , I could not help being struck by what seemed to me his un ...
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... philosopher , as a know- ledge of his ship and his oars is to a sailor . The Science of Language , as I treated it in my Lectures at Oxford , is pre - eminently an analytical science . We take languages as we find them , we trace them ...
... philosopher , as a know- ledge of his ship and his oars is to a sailor . The Science of Language , as I treated it in my Lectures at Oxford , is pre - eminently an analytical science . We take languages as we find them , we trace them ...
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... philosophers clung to that myth with the same tenacity with which they cling to their belief in faculties and forces , as different from their manifesta- tions . They had so little understood the fundamental principle on which my system ...
... philosophers clung to that myth with the same tenacity with which they cling to their belief in faculties and forces , as different from their manifesta- tions . They had so little understood the fundamental principle on which my system ...
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... philosophers from Plato to Hegel 1 , namely , that Logos is the same thing , whether you translate it by language or by thought , and that as there is no language without reason , neither is there any reason without language . I hope to ...
... philosophers from Plato to Hegel 1 , namely , that Logos is the same thing , whether you translate it by language or by thought , and that as there is no language without reason , neither is there any reason without language . I hope to ...
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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