 There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.  Myth, Ritual and Religion - Page 157by Andrew Lang - 1899 - 719 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...whichi leads into a system, that gives them some satisfaction. There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...which leads into a.system, that gives them some satisfaction. There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...that gives them some satisfaction. There is an universal tendency among mankind to con- -• •ceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We -find human... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 626 pages
...nature, which leads into a system that gives them some satisfaction. There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...nature, which leads into a system that gives them some satisfaction. There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...the events are produced, about which they are so much concerned There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, French - 1872 - 370 pages
...monotheism, but also traces the origin of all religion to its rudiment, in that ' universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.' 2 The greater... | |
 | Joseph Kaines - Positivism - 1880 - 146 pages
...much-labouring ancestors. • Hume writes thus of Fetichism : " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Mythology - 1880 - 980 pages
...religion, Hume, in his " Natural History of Religion," says : " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted and of which they are intimately conscious. . . . The unknown... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...minds, projected out of themselves by their imaginations : — " There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with wfiich they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. . . . The unknown... | |
| |
