 | James Joseph Fox - Ethics - 1899 - 368 pages
...Introduction to the Science of Religion, Max Muller defined religion as "A mental faculty, which independent, nay, in spite of sense and reason enables man to apprehend the infinite under various disguises." 1 In deference to a criticism made by Pfleiderer, pointing out that 1 See Science... | |
 | Paul Carus - Philosophy - 1900 - 740 pages
...MOLLER.1 In the Science of Religion Max 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 fetishes. 1... | |
 | Frederick Albert Richardson - 1901 - 786 pages
...of Religion," to establish a definition ; namely, that " religion is a mental faculty or disposition which, independent of, nay, in spite of, sense and...Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises" ; or whether, as in the case of Professor Tylor's "Primitive Culture," the object was rather... | |
 | Morris Jastrow (Jr.) - Religion - 1902 - 496 pages
...these scholars define religion. In his Hibbert lectures,1 Max Miillcr defines religion as " a mental faculty which independent of, nay, in spite of sense...the infinite under different names and under varying disguises." "We can hear in all religions," he says, "a groaning of the spirit, a struggle to conceive... | |
 | Charles Carroll Everett - Psychology, Religious - 1902 - 242 pages
...definition is purely subjective. Max Miiller says1 that religion is a mental faculty which, independent of sense and reason, enables man to apprehend the infinite under different names and various disguises. There are here two statements, one that religion is a mental faculty, the other... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 448 pages
...recollecting— the fact precedes the act of remembering. Discriminate between RELIGION and PIETY. Max Müller says : " Religion means two very different things....action which has its spring in the desire to do good and in the spontaneous respect for the claims of kindred or gratitude. Hence, there are many religions,... | |
 | Rationalism - 1904 - 384 pages
...in man a faculty of faith independent of all historical religions. There is a faculty or disposition which, independent of, nay, in spite of, sense and reason, enables man to apprehend God." But this faculty of faith in God is not direct and immediate : it is indirect, it works only... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - Religion - 1905 - 652 pages
...attempts as that of Max Miiller,3 to regard religion, subjectively considered, as a special sort of mental faculty which, "independent of, nay in spite of sense...the Infinite under different names and under varying disguises." The inability of all such theories to explain the facts of history has already (p. \15f.)... | |
 | Howard Jason Rogers - Art and science - 1906 - 684 pages
...the time ripe for more adequate definitions of religion. Max Miiller * denned religion as " a mental faculty which independent of, nay, in spite of sense...the infinite under different names and under varying disguises." The influence of certain phases of the thought of India with which he was so thoroughly... | |
 | Lajpat Rai (Lala) - Hindu civilization - 1907 - 334 pages
...till now been known or styled as religion. He defines it to be " a mental faculty which independent, nay, in spite, of sense and reason, enables man to...Infinite, under different names, and under -varying disguises." In anticipation of criticism he has taken pains to point out that by " Infinite " he does... | |
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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. 
