Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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Page viii
... sense in which I have above explained the word , being that which remains after fulfilling the above ten purposes , and being of opinion that I am bound if there is a ' residue ' as so explained , to employ it , or part of it , for the ...
... sense in which I have above explained the word , being that which remains after fulfilling the above ten purposes , and being of opinion that I am bound if there is a ' residue ' as so explained , to employ it , or part of it , for the ...
Page ix
... sense of that term , in other words , The Knowledge of God , the Infinite , the All , the First and Only Cause , the One and the Sole Substance , the Sole Being , the Sole Reality , and the Sole Existence , the Knowledge of His Nature ...
... sense of that term , in other words , The Knowledge of God , the Infinite , the All , the First and Only Cause , the One and the Sole Substance , the Sole Being , the Sole Reality , and the Sole Existence , the Knowledge of His Nature ...
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... sense , the only science , that of Infinite Being , without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so - called miraculous revela- tion . I wish it considered just as astronomy or chemistry is . I have ...
... sense , the only science , that of Infinite Being , without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so - called miraculous revela- tion . I wish it considered just as astronomy or chemistry is . I have ...
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... sincere lovers of and earnest inquirers after truth . ' And further- ' I wish the lecturers to treat their subject as a strictly natural science , the greatest of all possible sciences , indeed , in one sense , the only 6 LECTURE I.
... sincere lovers of and earnest inquirers after truth . ' And further- ' I wish the lecturers to treat their subject as a strictly natural science , the greatest of all possible sciences , indeed , in one sense , the only 6 LECTURE I.
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... sense of that word , that is , of a going back to the original form . Why should that be so ? Why should there be pro- gress in everything else , only not in religion ? The usual answer that religion rests on a divine and miraculous ...
... sense of that word , that is , of a going back to the original form . Why should that be so ? Why should there be pro- gress in everything else , only not in religion ? The usual answer that religion rests on a divine and miraculous ...
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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