...existing presentments of the ' good old story ; ' " and in the introduction to his Essays he says ; " 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...

...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? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of...

...the same thought in the Preface to " The Excursion " that we find in the Introduction to " Nature." " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by reve lation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " "Paradise and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields...

...of the soul under the soul's eternal forms, with the soul's self-vouching and inimitable accent ? " 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? Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past,...

...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 universe1 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion...

...book, the writer appealed to the century against the primary claim of Christianity, exclaiming : " The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...face ; we, through their eyes : why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...

...original relations with God. It is the same spirit as that of the opening lines of " Nature : " — "The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not wo have a poetry and philosophy...

...their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe 1 Why should not wo liave a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not tho history of theirs 1 . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. 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 ? As a plant on the earth, so man rests on the bosom...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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...