...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres 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?63 Rather than praising the virtues of self-disciplined...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres 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?"86 Die Gegenwart, die einer „ursprüngliche[n] Beziehung...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres 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?" 86 Die Gegenwart, die einer „ursprüngliche[n]...

...sich dementsprechend in die Sprache religiöser Offenbarung: „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?" (CW l, 7). Die Wendung zur Natur bedeutet für Emerson...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" The need was great for a direct, unmediated experience of the divine: "Why should not we have a poetry...

...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face-to-face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?24...

...Emerson began. "It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" At the end, mounting higher, he had "a certain poet" sing out for him, '"A man is a god in ruins,'"...

...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 —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1840) IDOK AT THE BOOKSHELVES IN THE LOCAL BARNES AND NOBLE, one would...

...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"1078. Some eighteen years later, in his famous Walden, Thoreau bemoans the rampant vanishing of...