 | Oscar Kuhns - Idealism - 1908 - 296 pages
...power, on which it feels that it and its destiny depend ; while Max Miiller defines it " as 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 would be possible; and if we will but listen attentively,... | |
 | James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 414 pages
...Introduction to the Science of Religion, MUller wrote : " Religion is a mental faculty or disposition, which, independent of, nay in spite of, sense and...Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises. Without that faculty no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetiches, would... | |
 | James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 404 pages
...intelligent Being." 1 According to Max Miiller (see Appendix), religion "is a faculty or disposition, which independent of, nay in spite of, sense and reason,...the Infinite under different names and under varying disguises." In his Theosophy z we read that religion is a bridge between the visible and material world... | |
 | Religion - 1913 - 136 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 sense and reason, enables man to comprehend the Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no... | |
 | Robert Nicol Cross - God - 1915 - 260 pages
...religion as ' the apprehension of the Infinite.' ' Religion is a mental faculty which independently, nay in spite of sense and reason, enables man to apprehend the Infinite under 1 ' Philosophy of Religion,' Eng. trans., I, p. 2. SCHLEIERMACHER 43 different names and in various... | |
 | Willard Chamberlain Selleck - Theology - 1916 - 152 pages
...profound "feeling of dependence." Max Mueller in his "Hibbert Lectures" denned religion as "a mental faculty which independent of, nay, in spite of sense...the infinite under different names and under varying disguises" ; and he said, "We can hear in all religions a groaning of the spirit, a struggle to conceive... | |
 | Edmund Davison Soper - Brahmanism - 1921 - 356 pages
...to a belief, an intellectual attitude. Max Muller makes religion "a mental faculty or disposition, which, independent of — nay, in spite of — sense...under different names and under varying guises."' This was later modified. "Religion consists in the perception of the Infinite under such manifestations... | |
 | Robert Ernest Hume - Christianity and other religions - 1924 - 348 pages
...intellectual emphasis has been expressed by Max Mtiller: Religion is a mental faculty or disposition, which independent of, nay in spite of, sense and reason,...the Infinite under different names and under varying guisea. ("Introduction to the Science of Religion," 1882, 13.^ (2) The moral emphasis has been expressed... | |
 | Franklin Steiner - Crime - 1924 - 150 pages
...Prof. Max Miiller, the greatest of authorities upon the science of religion: "Religion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of, sense...to apprehend the infinite under different names and disguises." The meaning of words has been fixed by the definitions of the best lexicographers and their... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1879 - 1160 pages
...particular system, signifies also ' a faculty of faith in man, independent of all historical religions : ' a faculty which, ' independent of, nay in spite of,...Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises.' I stop for a moment at this point, to dismiss from consideration the phrases which, without... | |
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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. 
