Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... Roots . - Words derived from conceptual roots . - Are concepts possible without words ? -Berkeley . - Process of naming . — Origin of concepts . - Former theories . - The clamor concomitans . - The conceptual foundation of language ...
... Roots . - Words derived from conceptual roots . - Are concepts possible without words ? -Berkeley . - Process of naming . — Origin of concepts . - Former theories . - The clamor concomitans . - The conceptual foundation of language ...
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... roots , and leave them , for the present , as ultimate facts . In tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number of meanings , springing from the same stem . And ...
... roots , and leave them , for the present , as ultimate facts . In tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number of meanings , springing from the same stem . And ...
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... root leîv , to run , because he suspected , as he says , that the sun , moon , earth , stars , and heaven , which are still the 1 See Mill , Three Essays on Religion , p . 4 . 6 2 Cf. Sânkhyatattvakaumudî , § 4 ; tannirvakanam ka ...
... root leîv , to run , because he suspected , as he says , that the sun , moon , earth , stars , and heaven , which are still the 1 See Mill , Three Essays on Religion , p . 4 . 6 2 Cf. Sânkhyatattvakaumudî , § 4 ; tannirvakanam ka ...
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... root ligere , by the side of ligare . The real objection to our deriving religio from religare is the fact that in classical Latin religare is never used in the sense of binding or holding back . In that sense we should have expected ...
... root ligere , by the side of ligare . The real objection to our deriving religio from religare is the fact that in classical Latin religare is never used in the sense of binding or holding back . In that sense we should have expected ...
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... roots . only , and forget the tree and the fruit which these roots were meant to support and to nourish . With- out its practical results , nay , without its practical purposes , religion would never have been religion . 1 See Professor ...
... roots . only , and forget the tree and the fruit which these roots were meant to support and to nourish . With- out its practical results , nay , without its practical purposes , religion would never have been religion . 1 See Professor ...
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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,
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