Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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Page 82
... animals , or , if possible , even on a slightly lower stage than that reached by some of the higher animals . When he visited the coasts of South America he thought he had found in the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego what he was look ...
... animals , or , if possible , even on a slightly lower stage than that reached by some of the higher animals . When he visited the coasts of South America he thought he had found in the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego what he was look ...
Page 83
... animals . I have quoted this case on several occasions , not in order to question Darwin's honesty , but simply to illustrate one cause of error to which all human observations are liable - a disposition to see what we expect and wish ...
... animals . I have quoted this case on several occasions , not in order to question Darwin's honesty , but simply to illustrate one cause of error to which all human observations are liable - a disposition to see what we expect and wish ...
Page 88
... animals possess something like religious feelings , then a sigh , a tear , a sudden silence , an involuntary interjection , or even a curse , become proof positive of the existence of germs of religion , though in a most rudimentary ...
... animals possess something like religious feelings , then a sigh , a tear , a sudden silence , an involuntary interjection , or even a curse , become proof positive of the existence of germs of religion , though in a most rudimentary ...
Page 116
... animals , we may stare at the blue sky or the green forest , without knowing anything about blue or green or colour ; even then that state of receptive passiveness should at all events not be called thought , but have its own ...
... animals , we may stare at the blue sky or the green forest , without knowing anything about blue or green or colour ; even then that state of receptive passiveness should at all events not be called thought , but have its own ...
Page 122
... animals , must be outlined , must have a beginning and an end , our concepts and names also are possible only with well defined groups , or , at all events , with groups that ought to be well defined , if they are to answer their ...
... animals , must be outlined , must have a beginning and an end , our concepts and names also are possible only with well defined groups , or , at all events , with groups that ought to be well defined , if they are to answer their ...
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