The childhood of religionsD. Appleton, 1875 - 288 páginas |
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... passed away from earth to learn new lessons in some other part of the wide universe of God . The poem tells us that as the boy lay in his cradle , ' Nature , the old nurse , took The child upon her knee , Saying : " Here is a story ...
... passed away from earth to learn new lessons in some other part of the wide universe of God . The poem tells us that as the boy lay in his cradle , ' Nature , the old nurse , took The child upon her knee , Saying : " Here is a story ...
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... passed between the molten state of the earth and the appearance upon its surface of the first forms of plant and animal life . That untold millions of years rolled away before the crust was cool enough to allow the steamy vapours above ...
... passed between the molten state of the earth and the appearance upon its surface of the first forms of plant and animal life . That untold millions of years rolled away before the crust was cool enough to allow the steamy vapours above ...
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... Passing by any full account of the Hindu story of a tree of life on a mountain ever bathed in sunshine , where no sin could enter and where dreadful dragons kept the way to the heavenly plants and fruits , and also of the Greek belief ...
... Passing by any full account of the Hindu story of a tree of life on a mountain ever bathed in sunshine , where no sin could enter and where dreadful dragons kept the way to the heavenly plants and fruits , and also of the Greek belief ...
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... passed through a state when the rudest and roughest tools were gladly used , and there can be little doubt that although the Aryans had learnt the value of metals , they were the offspring of people who had in a far - off past made ...
... passed through a state when the rudest and roughest tools were gladly used , and there can be little doubt that although the Aryans had learnt the value of metals , they were the offspring of people who had in a far - off past made ...
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... passed through fire ( from which comes our phrase about any one who has been scolded ; we say he has been ' hauled over the coals ' ) , or thrown into water , and , in the words of the law - book of the ancient Hindus , he whom the ...
... passed through fire ( from which comes our phrase about any one who has been scolded ; we say he has been ' hauled over the coals ' ) , or thrown into water , and , in the words of the law - book of the ancient Hindus , he whom the ...
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