 | Great Britain - 1878 - 890 pages
...of religion, or what is commonly called faith, in the following words : * — " Eeligion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of, sense...the Infinite under different names and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetishes, would... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - India - 1878 - 422 pages
...of religion, or what is commonly called faith, in the following words1 : — 'Religion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense...the infinite under different names and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetishes, would... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Fetishism - 1878 - 424 pages
...of religion, or what is commonly called faith, in the following words1 : — ' Religion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense...the infinite under different names and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetishes, would... | |
 | Charles Force Deems - 1878 - 780 pages
...lecture was an enlargement of a definition of religion, as " a mental faculty which, independently of sense and reason, enables man to apprehend the Infinite under different names and many disguises." MISSION NOTES. THE question having been raised whether or not missionary work is favorable... | |
 | Ernst Faber - China - 1879 - 186 pages
...the Christian or Jewish religion, we do not mean any special religion, but we mean a mental faculty, that faculty which independent of, nay in spite of...the Infinite under different names and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetishes, would... | |
 | Religion - 1879 - 428 pages
...of religion, or what is commonly called faith, in the following words : 1 — " Religion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense...the infinite under different names and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and 1 introduction... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1879 - 746 pages
...definition, which he confesses is not exhaustive nor entirely satisfactory, is, " Religion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay in spite of, sense...to apprehend the infinite under different names and various disguises." He further defines faculty as a mode of action, never a substantial something,... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 816 pages
...of language, so there is a faculty of faith in tnan independent of all historical religions ; * * * that faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite...Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises * * * In German we can distinguish that third faculty by the name of Vernunft, as opposed... | |
 | Theology - 1880 - 524 pages
...Dyfyna y eylwadau canlynol o un o ddarlithiau a draddodasid ganddo ynl870:— Religion i ; a mental faculty, which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense...the infinite under different names and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetishes, would... | |
 | Baptists - 1882 - 538 pages
...Christian or Jewish religion only; we do not mean any special religion, but we mean a mental faculty, that faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite...reason, enables man to apprehend the Infinite under varying disguises. Without that faculty no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetiches,... | |
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Jewish religion ; we do not mean any special religion ; but we mean a mental faculty or disposition, which, independent of, nay in spite of sense and reason, enables man to apprehend the Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises. 
