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Page viii
... of the subjects treated in these essays are , no doubt , obscure and difficult : but there is no subject , I believe , in the whole realm of human knowledge , that cannot be rendered clear and intel- ligible viii PREFACE .
... of the subjects treated in these essays are , no doubt , obscure and difficult : but there is no subject , I believe , in the whole realm of human knowledge , that cannot be rendered clear and intel- ligible viii PREFACE .
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... doubt whether the time has yet come for attempting to trace , after the model of the Science of Language , the definite outlines of the Science of Religion . By a succession of the most 1 August . Retr . 1 , 13. Res ipsa , quæ nunc ...
... doubt whether the time has yet come for attempting to trace , after the model of the Science of Language , the definite outlines of the Science of Religion . By a succession of the most 1 August . Retr . 1 , 13. Res ipsa , quæ nunc ...
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... doubt , is true to a certain extent . But even then we know that the interpretation of these canonical books varies , so much so that sects appealing to the same revealed authorities , as , for instance , the founders of the Vedanta and ...
... doubt , is true to a certain extent . But even then we know that the interpretation of these canonical books varies , so much so that sects appealing to the same revealed authorities , as , for instance , the founders of the Vedanta and ...
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... doubt , who value the tenets of their religion as the miser values his pearls and precious stones , thinking their value lessened if pearls and stones of the same kind are found in other parts of the world , the Science of Religion will ...
... doubt , who value the tenets of their religion as the miser values his pearls and precious stones , thinking their value lessened if pearls and stones of the same kind are found in other parts of the world , the Science of Religion will ...
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... doubt , of what people call profane history , but by that very fact , profane history ceases to be profane , and regains throughout that sacred character of which it had been deprived by a false distinction . ancient Fathers of the ...
... doubt , of what people call profane history , but by that very fact , profane history ceases to be profane , and regains throughout that sacred character of which it had been deprived by a false distinction . ancient Fathers of the ...
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