The Distinctive Messages of the Old ReligionsW. Blackwood and sons, 1892 - 342 páginas |
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... earliest object of his adoration would have been precisely that mysterious life which manifested it- self in contact with all other things , and without whose contact no other thing could be perceived . Why is it that the primitive man ...
... earliest object of his adoration would have been precisely that mysterious life which manifested it- self in contact with all other things , and without whose contact no other thing could be perceived . Why is it that the primitive man ...
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... earliest pursuit of such a cause will be amidst those objects of the material world which are not subject to the limits of his human consciousness ? I do not think , however , we are entitled to sup- pose that the primitive man will ...
... earliest pursuit of such a cause will be amidst those objects of the material world which are not subject to the limits of his human consciousness ? I do not think , however , we are entitled to sup- pose that the primitive man will ...
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... earliest tribute of praise . On the contrary , his gaze is riveted to that which is not above his head but beneath his feet . Instead of looking up to the heavens he casts his eye downward upon the earth . He takes up the pebble from ...
... earliest tribute of praise . On the contrary , his gaze is riveted to that which is not above his head but beneath his feet . Instead of looking up to the heavens he casts his eye downward upon the earth . He takes up the pebble from ...
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... earliest manifestation of wor- ship is what is called Fetichism - the worship of the lowest things . It is not denied that the primitive man seeks his first object of adoration not in the stars of heaven but in the fragments of wood and ...
... earliest manifestation of wor- ship is what is called Fetichism - the worship of the lowest things . It is not denied that the primitive man seeks his first object of adoration not in the stars of heaven but in the fragments of wood and ...
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... earliest worship is directed to that which is most remote from his own humanity ; his reverence for the divine is dictated by his repudia- tion of the human . How , then , is this dream to be broken ? How is the primitive man to be ...
... earliest worship is directed to that which is most remote from his own humanity ; his reverence for the divine is dictated by his repudia- tion of the human . How , then , is this dream to be broken ? How is the primitive man to be ...
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adoration Agnosticism Ahriman ancient aspiration Balder beginning belief Brahmanism Buddhism Cheap Edition China Chinese Christ Christianity Church Church of Scotland cloth Confucius creed Crown 8vo death deified divine doctrine dream earliest earth Egypt Egyptian element empire evil exhibit existence fact faith Fcap French morocco GEORGE ELIOT glory gods Greece Greek heaven hope human idea ideal Illustrations immortality India Indian individual J. G. Lockhart John Galt Judaism Judea kingdom Lâo-tze light Loki look mind modern moral mystery mythology nation nature object of worship OLIPHANT origin Pantheon Parsism past Philosophy Poems poetry Portrait Post 8vo present primitive principle Professor reached realise recognised religion religious revealed reverence Roman Rome sacrifice Scotland Second Edition seek sense shadows soul sphere spirit stage Teuton things Third Edition thought tion unity universe University of Edinburgh vols Zoroaster
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