The Natural History of AtheismDaldy, Isbister, 1877 - 247 pages |
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Page 91
... preaching power , as we may call it , of the Greek stage as a pulpit , will be best realised by reading the Furies of Eschylus , and the opening chorus of the Agamemnon by the same lofty genius . he rounded the Sunian promontory , was ...
... preaching power , as we may call it , of the Greek stage as a pulpit , will be best realised by reading the Furies of Eschylus , and the opening chorus of the Agamemnon by the same lofty genius . he rounded the Sunian promontory , was ...
Page 126
... preaching of Buddha , viewed as to its contents , was not so much a religion as a philo- sophy ; a philosophy , however , published according to popular belief , not by a vulgar mortal like Zeno , or Marcus Antoninus , but by an ...
... preaching of Buddha , viewed as to its contents , was not so much a religion as a philo- sophy ; a philosophy , however , published according to popular belief , not by a vulgar mortal like Zeno , or Marcus Antoninus , but by an ...
Page 141
... preach redemption from the curse of sin , by the practice of virtue ; and I do not see that curious speculations about the creation of the world can help me in my work . Nay , rather I do see that many learned Brahmans occupy themselves ...
... preach redemption from the curse of sin , by the practice of virtue ; and I do not see that curious speculations about the creation of the world can help me in my work . Nay , rather I do see that many learned Brahmans occupy themselves ...
Page 144
... preach ? Was he an Asiatic Zeno , or Epictetus , and nothing more ? Could he conquer the world by cold , stoical morality , and sublime asceticism alone ? No. He required something more ; and he found it in that wide - spread oriental ...
... preach ? Was he an Asiatic Zeno , or Epictetus , and nothing more ? Could he conquer the world by cold , stoical morality , and sublime asceticism alone ? No. He required something more ; and he found it in that wide - spread oriental ...
Page 162
... preach an effective practical gospel on such a basis . Religious meditation , when set up as an end , not as an exercise towards an end , can issue only with all the more highly gifted minds in transcendental reverie , but with the ...
... preach an effective practical gospel on such a basis . Religious meditation , when set up as an end , not as an exercise towards an end , can issue only with all the more highly gifted minds in transcendental reverie , but with the ...
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