 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 - Page 2151849Full view - About this book
 | John Trevor - 1897 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1897 - 388 pages
...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 ? . . . The sun shines to-day also. . . . Undoubtedly... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 pages
...declaration of independence; and it asked, in substance, the question asked in Emerson's " Nature " : " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Pope had said, in his " Essay on Criticism," * " follow Nature," and in order to follow Nature, learn... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1899 - 404 pages
...have " beheld God and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, "also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "... | |
 | James Lawrence Onderdonk - 1901 - 408 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of our fathers. It writes biographies, history, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 320 pages
...of the soul under the soul's eternal forms, with the soul's veritable and self-vouching 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dewey - 1903 - 412 pages
...driven back from the advanced position which could no longer be maintained. Emerson has somewhere said: "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?" The difficulty lies precisely in our faith in immediate... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...seen it before. THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE. cisms. The foregoing generations beheld God face to face. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not of tradition, and a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed... | |
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