 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...  Essays, orations and lectures - Page 1by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Norman Foerster - 1928 - 306 pages
...romantic background as that of the opening of Emerson's 'Nature,' 'Our age is retrospective. . . . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? ' A half generation later than Emerson, Whitman writes: The direct trial of him who would be the greatest... | |
 | 1903 - 912 pages
...influence Emerson has exerted through •his call to look at all reality immediately, at first hand. "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why xshould not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? " Again, he says, " Yourself a newborn... | |
 | 1936 - 344 pages
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