 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...  The American Scholar - Page 77by Theodore Parker - 1907 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1884 - 840 pages
...introduction to his Essays he says ; " The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...find in the Introduction to "Nature." "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
 | William Hague - 1884 - 84 pages
...generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes : why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" GENERAL REUNION IN PROVIDENCE, RI During the following... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...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 to the universe1 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...through their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not wo have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion hy revelation to us, and not tho history of theirs 1 . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1885 - 530 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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... | |
 | Herman Friedrich Grimm - 1886 - 332 pages
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...face ; we, through their eyes. "Why should not we also enjoy our original relation to the'universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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... | |
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