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THE present volume, which embodies the author's second course of Gifford Lectures, with notes and appendices, is devoted to the consideration of “Physical Religion,” that is the religion which finds its object the Infinite in or behind the phenomena of Nature. The author's previous writings have made it clear that for the simplest and most abundant manifestation of this form of religion we must go to the Veda, so his first task in the lectures before us is to tell once more the familiar story of the discovery, the character, and the age of the Veda. To this survey four lectures are devoted, and, in conclusion, the author—not without duly considering all that in recent years has been urged to the contrary—reaffirms his conviction that the hymns of the Rig Veda cannot have been collected later than 1000 B.C.
Physical Religion.
The Gifford Lectures delivered before the University of Glasgow in 1890. By F. Max Müller. (London: Longmans, 1891.)
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Physical Religion. Nature 44, 219–221 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044219a0
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