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( It must needs occur to the reader to ask in what sense the religion of Egypt was exceptionally material , ' a question which is not too easily answered . The term ' material ' seems to need definition : the senses in which it might be ...
( It must needs occur to the reader to ask in what sense the religion of Egypt was exceptionally material , ' a question which is not too easily answered . The term ' material ' seems to need definition : the senses in which it might be ...
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This difference of view belongs to the difference between those who look upon a creed in some measure from outside , and those who look on it wholly from within ; for to these last tradition , ceremonies , and what we may call the sense ...
This difference of view belongs to the difference between those who look upon a creed in some measure from outside , and those who look on it wholly from within ; for to these last tradition , ceremonies , and what we may call the sense ...
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Yet there is about the action of the gods in Homer too little mystery to satisfy the religious sense of an Athenian at the date of our dramatists . All seems too natural and aboveboard . The gods are in character so like to men ...
Yet there is about the action of the gods in Homer too little mystery to satisfy the religious sense of an Athenian at the date of our dramatists . All seems too natural and aboveboard . The gods are in character so like to men ...
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This volume published 1908, not 1808 as listed.
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THE GOVERNMENT OF SUBJECT RACES | 1 |
Dent | 28 |
Adam and Charles Black | 105 |
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