Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... traces in the Veda . - The old problems in their simpler form LECTURE X. PAGE 221-238 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS . Modern problems to be traced back . - Creation . -The logic of facts . Cosmological argument . — Aryan ...
... traces in the Veda . - The old problems in their simpler form LECTURE X. PAGE 221-238 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS . Modern problems to be traced back . - Creation . -The logic of facts . Cosmological argument . — Aryan ...
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... trace them back to their earliest forms , and classify them , and then analyse every word till we arrive at elements ... tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number ...
... trace them back to their earliest forms , and classify them , and then analyse every word till we arrive at elements ... tracing the upward growth of words we arrive at a stage where we can clearly see the branching off of a large number ...
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... Tracing the history of religio , we find it used in Latin in its original and wider sense of regard or respect , in such expressions as religio jurisjurandi , reverence for an oath , as distinguished from metus deorum , fear of the gods ...
... Tracing the history of religio , we find it used in Latin in its original and wider sense of regard or respect , in such expressions as religio jurisjurandi , reverence for an oath , as distinguished from metus deorum , fear of the gods ...
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... trace whatever has to be defined back to one genus proximum , not to two ; that if religion is a mode of knowing God , well and good ; but that it cannot be at the same time a mode of worshipping God . This may be true in logic , but ...
... trace whatever has to be defined back to one genus proximum , not to two ; that if religion is a mode of knowing God , well and good ; but that it cannot be at the same time a mode of worshipping God . This may be true in logic , but ...
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... tracing religion to two proxima genera instead of one , if fault it be , would have its historical justification in the fact that active religion , whether worship or morality , is , in its beginning at all events , inseparable from ...
... tracing religion to two proxima genera instead of one , if fault it be , would have its historical justification in the fact that active religion , whether worship or morality , is , in its beginning at all events , inseparable from ...
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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