The childhood of religionsD. Appleton, 1875 - 288 páginas |
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... light on the great problems of humanity than many works of a more pretentious and elaborate character .'- British Quarterly Review . ' We gladly welcome it as the forerunner of a series of better children's books .'- Westminster Review ...
... light on the great problems of humanity than many works of a more pretentious and elaborate character .'- British Quarterly Review . ' We gladly welcome it as the forerunner of a series of better children's books .'- Westminster Review ...
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... light during the last few years , and this through the patient labours of learned scholars , who have found them buried in the sacred writings of certain religions of the East . We will then see what our men of science have learned from ...
... light during the last few years , and this through the patient labours of learned scholars , who have found them buried in the sacred writings of certain religions of the East . We will then see what our men of science have learned from ...
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... light . ' It gave men larger and grander views of God when they learnt that the earth is one among many bodies circling round the sun , and that the sun himself is one of numberless suns that are strewn as star - dust in the heavens ...
... light . ' It gave men larger and grander views of God when they learnt that the earth is one among many bodies circling round the sun , and that the sun himself is one of numberless suns that are strewn as star - dust in the heavens ...
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... light abides ; and as knowledge of God , which comes from the study of man and his dwelling- place , the world , grows from more to more , ' sunnier views of Him make glad the heart , chasing away the false ideas about Him that ...
... light abides ; and as knowledge of God , which comes from the study of man and his dwelling- place , the world , grows from more to more , ' sunnier views of Him make glad the heart , chasing away the false ideas about Him that ...
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... light which is named , from a pretty myth , the Milky Way , and which we know consists of millions of stars , of which our sun is one , was the place where the two halves of the sky are joined together . And it was a very long time ...
... light which is named , from a pretty myth , the Milky Way , and which we know consists of millions of stars , of which our sun is one , was the place where the two halves of the sky are joined together . And it was a very long time ...
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