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... Lepchas of Northern India have no religion . " " Now the former of these statements , even if true , is not relevant . Belief in a future state is not to be identified with religion . The ancient Hebrews have often been accused of ...
... Lepchas of Northern India have no religion . " " Now the former of these statements , even if true , is not relevant . Belief in a future state is not to be identified with religion . The ancient Hebrews have often been accused of ...
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... Lepchas of Northern India have no re- ligion . " It is clear from Hooker's own words that such is very far from ... Lepchas are mostly Buddhists , and have priests , who are educated partly at home and partly in the great monasteries of ...
... Lepchas of Northern India have no re- ligion . " It is clear from Hooker's own words that such is very far from ... Lepchas are mostly Buddhists , and have priests , who are educated partly at home and partly in the great monasteries of ...
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... Lepchas , while nothing is adduced to disprove that of Colo- nel Yule . The Khasias recognise the existence of a Supreme Being , although they only worship the inferior spirits , who are supposed to inhabit the mountains , glens , and ...
... Lepchas , while nothing is adduced to disprove that of Colo- nel Yule . The Khasias recognise the existence of a Supreme Being , although they only worship the inferior spirits , who are supposed to inhabit the mountains , glens , and ...
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... Lepchas , they believe in a Supreme Being , and in deities of the grove , cave , and stream . " NOTE XXXII . , page 289 . POLYTHEISM . The author at one time hoped to devote two lectures to polytheism , and to the theories which have ...
... Lepchas , they believe in a Supreme Being , and in deities of the grove , cave , and stream . " NOTE XXXII . , page 289 . POLYTHEISM . The author at one time hoped to devote two lectures to polytheism , and to the theories which have ...
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Page 160 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to. another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 384 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 172 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 172 - ... and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually...
Page 454 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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Page 76 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.