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... true and original sense of that word . Man means the thinker , and the first manifestation of thought is speech . But more surprising than the continuity in the growth of language , is the continuity in the growth of religion . Of ...
... true and original sense of that word . Man means the thinker , and the first manifestation of thought is speech . But more surprising than the continuity in the growth of language , is the continuity in the growth of religion . Of ...
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... true religion , which existed already , began to be called Christian . ' From this point of view the words of Christ too , which startled the Jews , assume their true meaning , when He said to the centurion of Capernaum : Many shall ...
... true religion , which existed already , began to be called Christian . ' From this point of view the words of Christ too , which startled the Jews , assume their true meaning , when He said to the centurion of Capernaum : Many shall ...
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... true believer . We speak glibly of Buddhism and Brahmanism , for- getting that we are generalizing on the most inti- mate convictions of millions and millions of human souls , divided by half the world and by thousands of years . It may ...
... true believer . We speak glibly of Buddhism and Brahmanism , for- getting that we are generalizing on the most inti- mate convictions of millions and millions of human souls , divided by half the world and by thousands of years . It may ...
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... true God in the most ancient temple of the earth . According to Maigrot , Navarette , on the contrary , and even according to the Jesuit Longobardi , the adoration of the Chinese was addressed to inanimate tablets , meaningless ...
... true God in the most ancient temple of the earth . According to Maigrot , Navarette , on the contrary , and even according to the Jesuit Longobardi , the adoration of the Chinese was addressed to inanimate tablets , meaningless ...
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... true Civitas Dei on foundations as wide as the ends of the world . The Science of Religion may be the last of the sciences which man is destined to ela- borate ; but when it is elaborated , it will change the aspect of the world , and ...
... true Civitas Dei on foundations as wide as the ends of the world . The Science of Religion may be the last of the sciences which man is destined to ela- borate ; but when it is elaborated , it will change the aspect of the world , and ...
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