 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1874 - 258 pagine
...religions can neither be put on nor cast off like garments, according to their utility, or ac* P. 484. cording to their beauty, or according to their power...some pure traditions, and the rays of some primeval li^ht. Such evidence as history and philosophy and criticism afford on the course of religious knowledge... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1881 - 524 pagine
...and pure though simple views of God and of his duty. The further we go back in history the clearer become the traces of some pure traditions and the rays of some primeval light.3 The fact that during the ages in which extreme bar1 Darwin's Voyage of a Naturalist. p. 216.... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1884 - 732 pagine
...cruel towards others, and to fall into horrible and degrading superstitions. Human corruption in tills sense is as much a fact in the natural history of...afford on the course of religious knowledge is not in favor of the doctrine of a gradual rise, but, on the contrary, of continuous corruption and decline.... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1884 - 538 pagine
...and pure though simple views of God and of his duty. The further we go back in history the clearer become the traces of some pure traditions and the rays of some primeval light.3 The fact that during the ages in which extreme bar1 Darwin's Voyage of a Naturalist, p. 216.... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1892 - 512 pagine
...and pure though simple views of God and of his duty. The further we go back in history the clearer become the traces of some pure traditions and the rays of some primeval light. ' The fact that during the ages in which extreme barbarism prevailed over Europe—and when the world... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1868 - 900 pagine
...be. According to tliis theory, even devil-worship would be a step in ascent towards "civilisation" from the " utter barbarism" of Primeval Man. But this...farther we go back in that history the more clear become tho traces of some pure traditions, and tho rays of some primeval light. Such evidence as history and... | |
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Lubbock's argument implies that the tribes, if such there be, (which, by the way, is extremely doubtful) who are not known to have any ideas at all in respect to spiritual beings or to another world, are in a lower condition than tribes which have a "... 