Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... applies to mountains . The early settlers of this earth , when standing at the foot of a mountain and looking up to where its head vanishes in the clouds , could not help feeling overawed by these stupendous giants . We take all these ...
... applies to mountains . The early settlers of this earth , when standing at the foot of a mountain and looking up to where its head vanishes in the clouds , could not help feeling overawed by these stupendous giants . We take all these ...
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... of priests . The same applies to sacrifices . What are called in later times sacrifices or sacred acts must all in their beginning have been natural and spontaneous acts . We can RELIGION DIFFERENT FROM SCIENCE . 183.
... of priests . The same applies to sacrifices . What are called in later times sacrifices or sacred acts must all in their beginning have been natural and spontaneous acts . We can RELIGION DIFFERENT FROM SCIENCE . 183.
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... applies to sacrifices offered to the gods of nature , applies with equal force to the offerings presented to ancestral spirits . We have been told of late that sacrifices arose really from carousals , and I do not deny that there is ...
... applies to sacrifices offered to the gods of nature , applies with equal force to the offerings presented to ancestral spirits . We have been told of late that sacrifices arose really from carousals , and I do not deny that there is ...
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... applies to language , applies to mythology also . We know Vedic mythology at a much earlier date than Teutonic mythology , but that does not prove that the names and characters of the Teutonic gods were borrowed from the Veda . Thorr ...
... applies to language , applies to mythology also . We know Vedic mythology at a much earlier date than Teutonic mythology , but that does not prove that the names and characters of the Teutonic gods were borrowed from the Veda . Thorr ...
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... applies to grammar . When the Romanic languages , for instance , formed their new future by placing the auxiliary verb habere , to have , after the infinitive , it was quite open to any one of them to fix upon some other expedient for ...
... applies to grammar . When the Romanic languages , for instance , formed their new future by placing the auxiliary verb habere , to have , after the infinitive , it was quite open to any one of them to fix upon some other expedient for ...
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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.