 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...  Massachusetts Quarterly Review - 215 psl.1849Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Ron Scapp - 2003 - 212 psl.
...Ralph Waldo Emerson asks \\-hy should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe' \\Tiy should not we have a poetry and philosophy 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2004 - 428 psl.
...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 have an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 276 psl.
...the eyes of those earlier generations, as though God and Nature were no longer directly accessible. "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" he asked. "Why should not we have ... a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"... | |
 | Frances E. Vaughan - 2005 - 319 psl.
...one and all, then accept it and live up to it.1^ In the West, Ralph Waldo Emerson said it this way: Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? " The problem that many thoughtful people have with... | |
 | Neil Baldwin - 2005 - 270 psl.
...enriching" stimulus toward a new American culture and, eventually, a new American language and literature. "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes," Emerson wrote in the opening passages of Nature, seeking to express the birthright for his generation.... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 psl.
...to a distinct imaginative, and more specifically literary, culture for the United States by asking: "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" As opposed to Lincoln's political path, for Emerson neither the fixed Constitution nor any other institution... | |
 | Karen Sánchez-Eppler - 2005 - 300 psl.
...the sepulchers of the fathers," he asserts in the first lines of Nature, and famously goes on to ask "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" 32. Emerson, Journals, undated entry of September 1842. (7). Emerson's scorn for retrospect, sepulchers,... | |
 | 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 - 274 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?"... | |
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