 OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...  The Massachusetts Quarterly Review - 215 psl.1849Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Richard S. Gilbert - 2005 - 118 psl.
...role of the natural world order in religion. In his essay on "Nature," Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? .... Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us and invite... | |
 | Dave Smith - 2011 - 272 psl.
...I could count on, truth that spoke to my heart, that registered in my brain, that made some sense? "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Emerson asked. "Why should not we have... a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 psl.
...saying that our forefathers beheld God and nature "face to face; we, through their eyes," Emerson asks, "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" This "also" as in the next assertion, that the "sun shines to-day also," which presupposes an earlier... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 psl.
...everything else. Truth, love, morality, beauty, the physical world it all comes together in nature. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Steven P. Olson - 2006 - 122 psl.
...notice at first, but it represented a call to arms for reformers of poetic and philosophical traditions. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | James P. L. Wilson - 2005 - 519 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" CHAPTER 1 THE CALL T and time again for a number... | |
 | Jay Michaelson - 2007 - 272 psl.
...Many blessings on your menstrual-awareness journey! 13 Nature The foregoing generations beheld God face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Christopher Bigsby - 2006
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?'21 He spoke, it turned out, not just for a confrontation with the natural world but for a... | |
 | R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 psl.
...central tenet of Transcendentalism: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face. . . . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Indeed, much of Transcendentalism can be summed up as the individual's quest for an "original relation... | |
 | George Kateb - 2006 - 422 psl.
...even as it also helped to inspire modern democracy. Emerson asks in his first book, Nature (1836), "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (7). American democratic wildness often stems from that very impulse, anarchic, desocialized, religious,... | |
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