 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
 | Shamoon Zamir - 1995 - 316 pages
...perfect is come," then we shall see "face to face" (i Cor. 13:10, 12). Emerson, however, argues that "the foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their eyes," and asks "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"53 The prophet of the... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 pages
...both Locke and the transcendentalists meant to clear the ground for a new start. As Emerson asked, "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (CW 1:7). Locke's Essay is permeated by a heady anti-authoritarianism and a demand that men think for... | |
 | Michael Dunne - 1995 - 224 pages
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 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 pages
...sides. It is the very rare American scholar who actually delivers an answer to the Emersonian question "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" But despite these caveats, James's central point remains, that the world described is always our world,... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1997 - 294 pages
...original (as in the root sense of the word) and intimate relation to the silence. In Nature, Emerson says, "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Perhaps the greatest irony of poetry, and... | |
 | Gyorgyi Voros - 1997 - 216 pages
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