 | Humanities - 1928 - 710 pages
...origin mostly the result of normal human laziness." The wind, for example, is obviously alive. "Being alive, it blows: how? Why, naturally, just as you and I blow. It knocks things about, it shouts and dances, it whispers and talks," and we "naturally assume that... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - Greece - 1912 - 244 pages
...vivid an anthropomorphism which in its origin had been mostly the result of normal human laziness. The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic...result of not doing so. The wind is obviously alive ; any fool can see that. Being alive, it blows ; how ? why, naturally ; just as you and I blow. It... | |
 | Durant Drake - Christianity - 1916 - 452 pages
...Fielding Hall, The Hearts of Men, p. 72. Cf. Gilbert Murray, Four Stages of Greek Religion, p. 25: "The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic...result of not doing so. The wind is obviously alive; any fool can see that. Being alive, it blows; how? why, naturally; just as you and I blow. It knocks... | |
 | Durant Drake - Christianity - 1916 - 448 pages
...vigour. It is the result of not doing so. The wind is obviously alive; any fool can see that. Being alive, it blows; how? why, naturally; just as you and I blow. It knocks things down, it shouts and dances. It whispers and talks. And, unless we are going to make... | |
 | Anthropology - 1920 - 326 pages
...vivid an anthropomorphism which in its origin had been mostly the result of normal human laziness. The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic...special vigour. It is the result of not doing so. * * * * " We must get back behind these gods of the artist's workshop and the romance- maker's imagination,... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Dept. of Letters - Buddha (The concept) - 1920 - 452 pages
...vivid an anthropomorphism which in its origin had been mostly the result of normal human laziness. The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic gods, is, for the most part, not the resuli of using the imagination with special vigour. It is the result of not doing so. # # # * " We... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Dept. of Letters - Buddha (The concept) - 1920 - 452 pages
...vivid an anthropomorphism which in its origin had been mostly the result of normal human laziness. The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic gods, is, for the most part, not the resuli of using the imagination with special vigour. It is the result of not doing so. * # * * " We... | |
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The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic gods is, for the most part, not the result of using the imagination with special vigour. It is the result of not doing so. The wind is obviously alive ; any fool can see that. Being alive, it... 