 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 sider
...propensity in human nature, which leads into a system that gives them some satisfaction. There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings...they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they arc intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and, by a natural... | |
 | 1874 - 796 sider
...concerning Natural Religion.' In the Essay from which the above quotation is made, he speaks " of the universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to any object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted.* He is everywhere full of the... | |
 | 1875 - 844 sider
...concerning Natural Religion." In the essay from which the above quotation is made, he speaks "of the universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to any object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted."" He is everywhere full of the... | |
 | 1883 - 836 sider
...the shadows of men's own minds, projected out of themselves by their imaginations : — " There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings...and to transfer to every object those qualities with wfiich they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. . . . The unknown... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1884 - 496 sider
...concerning Natural Religion.' In the Essay from which the above quotation is made, he speaks " of the universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to any object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted." 1 He is every1 Sect. iii. where... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1887 - 370 sider
...explained or described by Hume in his Essay on Natural Religion : " There is an universal tendency in mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities ... of which they are intimately conscious." l Now they believe themselves to be conscious of magical... | |
 | Bernhard Pünjer - 1887 - 702 sider
...there is another consideration which has to be added to these. Men have the general tendency to think all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities of which they are conscious in themselves. Thus we find human faces in the moon, and armies in the... | |
 | 1875 - 880 sider
...concerning Natural Religion." In the essay from which the above quotation is made, he speaks "of the universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to any object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted." * He is everywhere full of the... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1899 - 388 sider
...explained or described by Hume in his Essay on Natural Religion : " There is an universal tendency in mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities ... of which they are intimately conscious ",l Now they believe themselves to be conscious of magical... | |
 | John Morley - 1900 - 392 sider
...polytheism precedes monotheism, but also traces the origin of all religion to its rudiment, in that 'universal tendency among mankind to conceive all...familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious1!'1 The greater the knowledge we acquire of the spiritual rudiments of primitive people,... | |
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There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. 
