Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 страници |
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... speak through our words faintly , and not always , rightly . Allow me to quote some extracts from this remark- able Will : - • ' I , Adam Gifford , sometime one of the Senators of the College of Justice , Scotland , . . . having fully ...
... speak through our words faintly , and not always , rightly . Allow me to quote some extracts from this remark- able Will : - • ' I , Adam Gifford , sometime one of the Senators of the College of Justice , Scotland , . . . having fully ...
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... speak of myself . I know it is very wrong , and sound very may selfish . But I am anxious to explain to you what the main outline of the work of my life has been , and why I hope that in these lectures I may be able to gather up what ...
... speak of myself . I know it is very wrong , and sound very may selfish . But I am anxious to explain to you what the main outline of the work of my life has been , and why I hope that in these lectures I may be able to gather up what ...
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... speak of Comparative Language ; neither ought we to speak of Comparative Religion . It is different with mythology . Mythology may be used , not only for a collection of myths , but likewise for a scientific treatment of them , and in ...
... speak of Comparative Language ; neither ought we to speak of Comparative Religion . It is different with mythology . Mythology may be used , not only for a collection of myths , but likewise for a scientific treatment of them , and in ...
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... speaking and acting from our own holy inspiration , if we do not at least feel all that we feel as an immediate in- fluence of the universe , and yet discover in it some- thing that is our own , that cannot be imitated , but can prove ...
... speaking and acting from our own holy inspiration , if we do not at least feel all that we feel as an immediate in- fluence of the universe , and yet discover in it some- thing that is our own , that cannot be imitated , but can prove ...
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... can hardly be avoided , and we have to make allowance for it in all branches of knowledge . We speak of logic , meaning either the laws of thought as E we know and follow them ourselves , or a body DEFINITION OF RELIGION . 49.
... can hardly be avoided , and we have to make allowance for it in all branches of knowledge . We speak of logic , meaning either the laws of thought as E we know and follow them ourselves , or a body DEFINITION OF RELIGION . 49.
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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.
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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.
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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.