Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... seems to have given offence , and those who knew him , little suspected this hard - working lawyer of having his whole soul engrossed by Spinoza's Ethics- or the metaphysics of religion . And yet when his Will was opened , the one thing ...
... seems to have given offence , and those who knew him , little suspected this hard - working lawyer of having his whole soul engrossed by Spinoza's Ethics- or the metaphysics of religion . And yet when his Will was opened , the one thing ...
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Friedrich Max Müller. lous revelation . ' But those who use that argument seem really to forget that they are contradicting ... seems to sound that one deep note , ' Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time - But I say unto you ...
Friedrich Max Müller. lous revelation . ' But those who use that argument seem really to forget that they are contradicting ... seems to sound that one deep note , ' Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time - But I say unto you ...
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... seems to me a sign of the times , pregnant with meaning . Lord Gifford , intelligent observer of the world as he was , must have been struck with the immense advances which all other sciences had been making during his life- time , and ...
... seems to me a sign of the times , pregnant with meaning . Lord Gifford , intelligent observer of the world as he was , must have been struck with the immense advances which all other sciences had been making during his life- time , and ...
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... seem strange to some that Lord Gifford should have expressed a wish that the Science of Religion should be treated as a strictly natural science . He may have thought of the method of the natural sciences only ; but it seems to me not ...
... seem strange to some that Lord Gifford should have expressed a wish that the Science of Religion should be treated as a strictly natural science . He may have thought of the method of the natural sciences only ; but it seems to me not ...
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... seems to me the most remarkable feature of his bequest . Lord Gifford was evidently what the world would call a devout and religious man , and you have heard how in his Will he expressed his conviction that a true knowledge of God is ...
... seems to me the most remarkable feature of his bequest . Lord Gifford was evidently what the world would call a devout and religious man , and you have heard how in his Will he expressed his conviction that a true knowledge of God is ...
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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