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... marked its processes , and reckoned with its results , there remains only the examination of its tenden- cies . These of course will be different at different times in the life of the social group and each group will differ from every ...
... marked its processes , and reckoned with its results , there remains only the examination of its tenden- cies . These of course will be different at different times in the life of the social group and each group will differ from every ...
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... Nor is man the only social being . Very highly organized and complex social life is found among animals so low in the scale as bees and ants , and , in a less marked degree , the higher animals group 23 THE SOCIAL VALUE OF RELIGION.
... Nor is man the only social being . Very highly organized and complex social life is found among animals so low in the scale as bees and ants , and , in a less marked degree , the higher animals group 23 THE SOCIAL VALUE OF RELIGION.
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... marked by the object which it worships and the way in which it offers its devotions . The unity of the human race is disclosed in the oneness of its interests . All human beings that live together must have some kind of a government and ...
... marked by the object which it worships and the way in which it offers its devotions . The unity of the human race is disclosed in the oneness of its interests . All human beings that live together must have some kind of a government and ...
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... marked importance . He removes forests and changes the amount and time of the rainfall . He drains the country and effects evaporation . By the processes of drainage he enlarges his rivers , and , again , he makes them small by ...
... marked importance . He removes forests and changes the amount and time of the rainfall . He drains the country and effects evaporation . By the processes of drainage he enlarges his rivers , and , again , he makes them small by ...
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... marked is the fact that they develop what may be called a social character . That character reveals itself in the way in which a people works and the ends which it seeks . Among the early tribes some were military and loved to fight and ...
... marked is the fact that they develop what may be called a social character . That character reveals itself in the way in which a people works and the ends which it seeks . Among the early tribes some were military and loved to fight and ...
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Page 67 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 178 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 150 - What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear ? And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites : for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Page 116 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 178 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 104 - When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 161 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 72 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 181 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 195 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.