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... favour , conduct may be regulated accordingly . And , so far as we look forward to a future existence , we may expect that the same course of conduct , if continued , will secure for us beneficial advantages there . If we ascribe ...
... favour , conduct may be regulated accordingly . And , so far as we look forward to a future existence , we may expect that the same course of conduct , if continued , will secure for us beneficial advantages there . If we ascribe ...
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... favoured individuals . But when the supernatural as cause is thrown back , and events found to take place ac- cording to natural uniformities , conduct becomes founded on natural circumstances and regulated by natural laws . Morality ...
... favoured individuals . But when the supernatural as cause is thrown back , and events found to take place ac- cording to natural uniformities , conduct becomes founded on natural circumstances and regulated by natural laws . Morality ...
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... favour of the doctrine of ancestor worship as furnishing the archaic form of religion . Whatever conclusion may eventually be reached upon this point , it is certain that the statement made in previous chapters , to the effect that the ...
... favour of the doctrine of ancestor worship as furnishing the archaic form of religion . Whatever conclusion may eventually be reached upon this point , it is certain that the statement made in previous chapters , to the effect that the ...
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... favoured few who assert that they have had the experience in question as furnishing the data for whatever direct knowledge we possess upon the subject . But before accepting this testimony as expressing truth , we must both consider the ...
... favoured few who assert that they have had the experience in question as furnishing the data for whatever direct knowledge we possess upon the subject . But before accepting this testimony as expressing truth , we must both consider the ...
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... favours . The utmost we can say is that , if individual personality continues , there is the probability of a social union of individuals , carrying with it a moral order of rights and obligations . We observe in mankind as a whole an ...
... favours . The utmost we can say is that , if individual personality continues , there is the probability of a social union of individuals , carrying with it a moral order of rights and obligations . We observe in mankind as a whole an ...
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action activity æsthetic altruistic arise authority become belief cause chap CHAPTER character christian church cloth extra cognition conduct consciousness constitution constructions Crown 8vo death declarations degree deity desire divine doctrine E. A. FREEMAN effect emotional environment Essays evil existence external fact favour feeling force furnishing future gilt edges happiness Hence HISTORY human mind idea ideals Illustrations implies individual inevitably influence intelligence judgment knowledge latter limitation MANDELL CREIGHTON ment mental monotheism monotheistic moral natural non-ego notion object organisation pain PANTHEISM perfection phenomena pleasure polytheism positive possible postulate question R. A. PROCTOR realisation reality regard relations religious sentiments representation representative resisting bodies S. R. GARDINER SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER science of religion scientific self-distinguishing sensational experience social organism space spirit super supernatural society supernatural world teaching things THOMAS CARLYLE thought tion true truth universal volitional vols whole Woodcuts worship
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