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... minds , from Plato ‡ down to Copleston § in our own day , have been content to refer it . Nor , again , even if we ... mind to religion and morality , by purifying and elevating the passions , to which it appeals so forcibly , or who ...
... minds , from Plato ‡ down to Copleston § in our own day , have been content to refer it . Nor , again , even if we ... mind to religion and morality , by purifying and elevating the passions , to which it appeals so forcibly , or who ...
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... mind . The reader will already have anticipated our meaning , when we say that it is the religion of ancient Greece , as modified by the con- stitutional tendencies of the national and especially the Athenian mind , which furnishes the ...
... mind . The reader will already have anticipated our meaning , when we say that it is the religion of ancient Greece , as modified by the con- stitutional tendencies of the national and especially the Athenian mind , which furnishes the ...
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... mind at such periods , is the idea of Deity , as recognised in his attributes of power , goodness , and wisdom , and in the outward manifestations of the natural world . Now , if this , as a matter of fact , be true of nations in ...
... mind at such periods , is the idea of Deity , as recognised in his attributes of power , goodness , and wisdom , and in the outward manifestations of the natural world . Now , if this , as a matter of fact , be true of nations in ...
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... mind , here do we find the key that unlocks to us the origin and antiquity of the Grecian drama . Their wide - spread anthropomorphism * , their love of representing the unseen Deity under the human form , though with features and ...
... mind , here do we find the key that unlocks to us the origin and antiquity of the Grecian drama . Their wide - spread anthropomorphism * , their love of representing the unseen Deity under the human form , though with features and ...
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... mind ascends from a worship of the objects of nature to the worship of those powers which direct its course : and the step from the worship of powers of a material kind to that of powers of a spiritual kind is easy and obvious . " In ...
... mind ascends from a worship of the objects of nature to the worship of those powers which direct its course : and the step from the worship of powers of a material kind to that of powers of a spiritual kind is easy and obvious . " In ...
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