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... interest of some system or some organised body . More- over , in the efforts which his own intelligence may make , a person will be much perplexed from a proneness of his own mind to confuse the products of religion , its incidents and ...
... interest of some system or some organised body . More- over , in the efforts which his own intelligence may make , a person will be much perplexed from a proneness of his own mind to confuse the products of religion , its incidents and ...
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... interest to ask ourselves the ultimate questions , or to set out at all in the quest which we always find so vain . But it cannot be denied that we do ask these questions , nor that our minds do universally declare that there is ...
... interest to ask ourselves the ultimate questions , or to set out at all in the quest which we always find so vain . But it cannot be denied that we do ask these questions , nor that our minds do universally declare that there is ...
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... interests . The belief in a supernatural as cause of events in the natural world issues among primitive men in the belief that the supernatural world is peopled with intelligent beings by whom the events of natural life are somehow ...
... interests . The belief in a supernatural as cause of events in the natural world issues among primitive men in the belief that the supernatural world is peopled with intelligent beings by whom the events of natural life are somehow ...
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... interests , for pain inflicted or suffered is a greater stimulus to action than hopes of reward beyond immunity from evil . But these latter hopes do arise and have their influence . As knowledge progresses , however , the discovery of ...
... interests , for pain inflicted or suffered is a greater stimulus to action than hopes of reward beyond immunity from evil . But these latter hopes do arise and have their influence . As knowledge progresses , however , the discovery of ...
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... interests , and this is concurrent with the course of evolution , which is all the while changing the objects of those interests in the progress of adaptation of organism to environment . Heredity furnishes a constitution exhibiting ...
... interests , and this is concurrent with the course of evolution , which is all the while changing the objects of those interests in the progress of adaptation of organism to environment . Heredity furnishes a constitution exhibiting ...
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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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