The Hibbert LecturesUniversity Press, 1892 |
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Æsir Ahriman Ahura Mazda amongst ancient Andrew Lang animals archæology Assyria attributes become belief body Brahmanism celestial chief Christianity civilization cloth Cobbe Miss F. P. conceived conception Crown 8vo custom dead deceased deities divine E. B. Tylor earth Edition Egyptians evil evolution existence fetish fire gods Greeks heaven Herbert Spencer Hibbert Lectures Hindus human hymn idea idols India IOS 6d latter London manifestations Max Müller monotheism moon moral mysterious mythology nature Negroes objects offering origin Osiris Paris Pausanias personality personified peuples non-civilisés phenomena philosophy polytheism pre-historic Primitive Culture Professor race Redskins regarded Religions des peuples religious sentiment represented Réville Rig-Veda rites sacrifice savage simply sometimes sorcerer soul spirits stones superhuman powers supposed supreme symbols Theological Translation Fund theology things Tiele tion tombs trace traditions Translation Fund Library trepanning Tylor universe Varuna Vedic Vide Theological Translation worship Yahveh Zeus
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Page 198 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 220 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Page 239 - Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will, as these transcend mechanical motion ? It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being.
Page 115 - For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.
Page viii - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 47 - I mean the conception man forms of his relations with the superhuman and mysterious powers on which he believes himself to depend.