Introduction to the Science of Religion: With Two Essays on False Analogies, and the Philosophy of Mythology (Classic Reprint): Four Lectures ... in February and May, 1870 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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FIRST LECTURE. DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION, FEBRUARY 19, 1870. X^7"HEN I undertook for the first time to deliver a course of lectures in this Institution, I chose for my subject the Science of Language. What I then had at heart was to show to you, and to the world at large, that the comparative study of the principal languages of mankind was based on sound and scientific principles, and that it had brought, to light results which deserved a larger share of public interest than they had as yet received. I tried to convince not only scholars by profession, but historians, theologians, and philosophers, nay everybody who had once felt the charm of gazing inwardly upon the secret workings of his own mind, veiled and revealed as they are in the flowing folds of language,

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CONTENTS; PAGE; Lectures on tlie Science of Religion:-; Lecture I i; Appendix to Lecture I 68; Lecture II 101; Lecture III144; Lecture IV 217; On False Analogies in Comparative Theology 283; On the Philosophy of Mythology , -335

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