 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 452 pages
...every universally recognised form of religion. Max Miiller defines it thus* :—" 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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 450 pages
...every universally recognised form of religion. Max Miiller defines it thus* :—" 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... | |
 | Universalism - 1889 - 540 pages
...evolution. The author (Max Miiller) gives his definition of religion as follows : " Religion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay in spite of sense and reason, enables man to appreciate the Infinite under different names and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no... | |
 | Diodato Lioy - Ethics - 1891 - 414 pages
...not mean the Christian or Jewish religion; we do not mean any special religion ; but we mean a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense...Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises. Without that faculty no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetishes, would... | |
 | Samuel Henry Kellogg - Religion - 1892 - 312 pages
...although with less confidence, in the Hibbert Lectures, in 1878; namely, that "religion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense...Infinite, under different names, and under varying disguises." 2 He himself, in these later lectures, justly remarks that in the earlier definition he... | |
 | F. Max Muller - 1893 - 380 pages
...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,...Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises. Without that faculty, no religion, not even the lowest worship of idols and fetishes, would... | |
 | Richard M. Mitchell - 1893 - 496 pages
...Muller, MA 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. The natural religious disposition is a mental faculty having peculiarities similar... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1895 - 400 pages
...Science of Religion, p. 17, states his fundamental position in the following form: ' Religion is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense...infinite under different names and under varying guises.' This utterance has naturally encountered adverse criticism on the ground that it is unwarrantable to... | |
 | Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya - Caste - 1896 - 708 pages
...himself gives the following definition of the term : — " Religion is a mental faculty or disposition which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense and reason, enables man to apprehend tho Infinite under different names and under varying disguises." This definition has been condemned... | |
 | New Thought - 1906 - 412 pages
...which he feels sure must meet the approval of all contending disputants. He says "Beligion is a mental faculty, which, independent of, nay in spite of sense...the infinite under different names and under varying degrees." But all these definitions are merely efforts to define a metaphysical chimera, whose reality... | |
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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. 
