Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 страници |
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... Sacred Books . - Lan- guage as evidence . - Survey of languages . - ARYAN FAMILY.— English . -Veda - olda . - Anglo - Saxon . - Gothic.- Continental Saxon . - Scandinavian . — Thorr and Thursday . - Týr and Tues- day . Wodan and ...
... Sacred Books . - Lan- guage as evidence . - Survey of languages . - ARYAN FAMILY.— English . -Veda - olda . - Anglo - Saxon . - Gothic.- Continental Saxon . - Scandinavian . — Thorr and Thursday . - Týr and Tues- day . Wodan and ...
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... SACRED BOOKS . - What is a sacred book ? -The five birthplaces of sacred books . Survey of sacred books . - India . - The Veda . - Bud- dhism . Influence of the Kshatriyas , the nobility . — Media and Persia . — China . Palestine ...
... SACRED BOOKS . - What is a sacred book ? -The five birthplaces of sacred books . Survey of sacred books . - India . - The Veda . - Bud- dhism . Influence of the Kshatriyas , the nobility . — Media and Persia . — China . Palestine ...
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... sacred writings were composed . This is an excellent plan , perhaps the best that could be devised . The professor of Arabic would lecture on the Qur'ân , the professor of Persian on the Avesta , the professor of Sanskrit on the Veda ...
... sacred writings were composed . This is an excellent plan , perhaps the best that could be devised . The professor of Arabic would lecture on the Qur'ân , the professor of Persian on the Avesta , the professor of Sanskrit on the Veda ...
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... Sacred Books of the East . I soon came to see , however , that these Upani- shads were only the latest outcome of Vedic litera- ture , and that in order to know their antecedents , in order to be able to appreciate the historical growth ...
... Sacred Books of the East . I soon came to see , however , that these Upani- shads were only the latest outcome of Vedic litera- ture , and that in order to know their antecedents , in order to be able to appreciate the historical growth ...
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... Sacred Books of the East . I had by that time finished the edition of the Rig - veda and its commentary , and it was expected that I should publish a complete translation of it . But here I broke down , for reasons which those who know ...
... Sacred Books of the East . I had by that time finished the edition of the Rig - veda and its commentary , and it was expected that I should publish a complete translation of it . But here I broke down , for reasons which those who know ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 253 - God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and hunger...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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,...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.