 | Charles J. Shindo - 1997 - 280 psl.
...criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . . . There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - 1997 - 440 psl.
...imagination plays us false."21 Creative men should therefore be detached from the vertical generational line: "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs."22 In his monumental study of poetic influence, Harold Bloom negates the line of longitude... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 psl.
...hundred words, appear the central questions to be answered in the rest of the work. It begins: Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | David Seamon, Arthur Zajonc, Professor of Physics Arthur Zajonc - 1998 - 340 psl.
...nature that was not mediated through scripture, prophets and history but could be experienced directly: Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?... The sun shines today also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands,... | |
 | Michael J. McClymond - 1998 - 207 psl.
...fathers.... The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Nature, in Essays and... | |
 | Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 psl.
...Unitarian clergymen wanted to inject more "life," or emotion, into the dry bones of latter-day deism. "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Emerson had asked in Nature. They were called "transcendentalism" initially as a pejorative... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 psl.
..."Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" The emphasis is on the word also. "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"5 Pursuing his own question, Emerson sets out the main benefits we derive from nature, and... | |
 | Joshua David Bellin - 2001 - 294 psl.
...the fathers The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . . . [W]hy should we grope among the dry bones of the past?" Nature is thus an attempt to... | |
 | John Lardas, John Lardas Modern - 2001 - 340 psl.
...religiosity, free from the infringement of the dominant institutions and standards. As Emerson had asked, "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not to the history of theirs?"33 Also like the Transcendentalists, the Beats attempted to reform the social... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 psl.
...universe?" As though to reinforce this simple but profoundly revolutionary idea, he immediately paraphrases: "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Rather than experiencing God at second hand, in the usual fashion, by reading about Him in... | |
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The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by... 
