 The impression is so deeply engraved upon their moral and mental nature that any system of atheism strikes them as too absurd and preposterous to require a denial. Everything which transpires in the natural world beyond the power of man or of spirits,...  The Presbyterian Magazine - Side 32redigert av - 1857Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1881 - 780 sider
...upholds all things, is universal. Nor is this idea imperfectly or obscurely developed in their minds. All of the tribes in the country with which the writer has become acquainted (and they are not a few) have a name for God, and many of them have two or more significant of His character, as a Maker,... | |
 | Samuel Henry Kellogg - 1892 - 312 sider
...that any system of atheism strikes them as too absurd and preposterous to require a denial. . . . All the tribes in the country with which the writer has become acquainted, and they are not a few, have a name for God, and many of them have two or more, significant of His character as a Maker,... | |
 | Robert Hamill Nassau - 1904 - 448 sider
...system of atheism strikes them as too absurd and preposterous to require a denial. Everything which transpires in the natural world beyond the power of...and spontaneously ascribed to the agency of God. All the tribes in the country with which the writer has become acquainted (and they are not few) have a... | |
 | Robert Hamill Nassau - 1904 - 446 sider
...occupy a place somewhat higher than man, is at once and spontaneously ascribed to the agency of God. All the tribes in the country with which the writer has...have a name for God ; and many of them have two or more,significant of His character as a Maker, Preserver, and Benefactor. (In the Grebo country Nyiswa... | |
 | Theophilus E. Samuel Scholes - 1905 - 440 sider
...system of atheism strikes them as too absurd and preposterous to require a denial. Everything which transpires in the natural world, beyond the power...occupy a place somewhat higher than man, is at once spontaneously ascribed to the agency of God. All of the tribes in the country with which the writer... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1908 - 880 sider
...•wonder or awe. Among the natives of Northern Guinea, according to Mr. Wilson, "every thing which transpires in the natural world beyond the power of...and spontaneously ascribed to the agency of God." 3 Nay, for reasons which will be stated immediately, I am even of opinion that the function of a moral... | |
 | Alexandre Le Roy - 1922 - 362 sider
...system of atheism strikes them as too absurd and preposterous to require a denial. Everything which transpires in the natural world beyond the power of...and spontaneously ascribed to the agency of God. All the tribes in the country with which the writer has become acquainted (and they are not a few) have... | |
 | Alexandre Le Roy - 1922 - 376 sider
...occupy a place somewhat higher than man, is at once and spontaneously ascribed to the agency of God. All the tribes in the country with which the writer has become acquainted (and they are not a few) have a name for God ; and many of them have two or more, significant of his character as a Maker,... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1926 - 72 sider
...wonder or awe. Among the natives of Northern Guinea, according to Leigh ton Wilson, " everything which transpires in the natural world beyond the power of...and spontaneously ascribed to the agency of God." Nay, for reasons which will be stated presently, I am even of opinion that the function of a moral... | |
 | David A. Shank - 1993 - 352 sider
...1968, 31. the Catholic mission started there. He gives a Kru understanding of Nyesoa: Everything which transpires in the natural world beyond the power of man, or of spirits... is at once . . . ascribed to the agency of God . . . The prevailing notion seems to be that God, after... | |
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