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What can we answer under such provocation , except , Define what you mean by
religion , define what you mean by philosophy , define what you mean by music ,
and then , and then only , we may possibly come to an agreement as to whether ...
What can we answer under such provocation , except , Define what you mean by
religion , define what you mean by philosophy , define what you mean by music ,
and then , and then only , we may possibly come to an agreement as to whether ...
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It gives to man a clear insight into himself , answers the highest questions , and
thus imparts to us a complete harmony with ourselves , and a thorough
sanctification to our mind 2 . ' . . How to account for these different definitions . 1
What was ...
It gives to man a clear insight into himself , answers the highest questions , and
thus imparts to us a complete harmony with ourselves , and a thorough
sanctification to our mind 2 . ' . . How to account for these different definitions . 1
What was ...
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It is only because it answers these requirements of society that religion flourishes
. It keeps the poor and miserable quiet by promising them pleasures in the world
to come , and thus enables the rich and noble to enjoy their pleasures on earth ...
It is only because it answers these requirements of society that religion flourishes
. It keeps the poor and miserable quiet by promising them pleasures in the world
to come , and thus enables the rich and noble to enjoy their pleasures on earth ...
Page 76
... for the mere fancy of any single individual would have answered the purpose .
Besides , it is asserted ( p . 276 ) that all historical religions presuppose older
religions , and are reformations rather than original intellectual creations , while
the ...
... for the mere fancy of any single individual would have answered the purpose .
Besides , it is asserted ( p . 276 ) that all historical religions presuppose older
religions , and are reformations rather than original intellectual creations , while
the ...
Page 79
This is Professor Gruppe ' s theory , which sounds almost incredible in the
nineteenth century after Christ , but which is put forward and defended with so
much earnestness and so much learning that it requires and deserves a careful
answer .
This is Professor Gruppe ' s theory , which sounds almost incredible in the
nineteenth century after Christ , but which is put forward and defended with so
much earnestness and so much learning that it requires and deserves a careful
answer .
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Page 569 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
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.
Page 242 - As among these, so among primitive men, the ' weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in any other sense, survived. Life was a continual free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations of the family, the Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence.
Page 253 - God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and hunger...
Page 145 - Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented 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.
Page 260 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Page 528 - Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Page 248 - In the beginning this was non-existent. It became existent, it grew. It turned into an egg. The egg lay for the time of a year. The egg broke open. The two halves were one of silver, the other of gold. The silver one became this earth, the golden one the sky, the thick membrane of the white the mountains, the thin membrane of the yoke the mist with the clouds, the small veins the rivers, the fluid the sea. And what was born from it that was Aditya, the sun. When he was born shouts of hurrah arose,...
Page 533 - 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.
Page 98 - There is one eternal thinker, thinking non-eternal thoughts, who, though one, fulfils the desires of many. The wise who perceive him within their Self, to them belongs eternal peace, not to others.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888 Gifford lectures |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1889 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 608 pages |
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