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... Emerson at Home and Abroad - Page 163by Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 383 pagesFull view - About this book
| Norman Foerster - 1928 - 294 pages
...and at last expanded by new English and German outlooks, suddenly issued its own original manifesto: "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? . . . There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship."... | |
| 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... | |
| Bernard M. G. Reardon - 1966 - 420 pages
...originality, in thought and experience, cultivated. 'The foregoing generations," he wrote in Nature, 'beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their...also enjoy an original relation to the Universe?' And again, 'In the soul let redemption be sought. Refuse the good models, even those which are sacred... | |
| Kenneth Burke - 1966 - 534 pages
...the city of God which had been shown! (This passage presumably refers to a spot in the Introduction: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face: we, through their eyes." And at that point, of course, one might turn aside to mention the favored role of eye-imagery in Emerson's... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Richard E. Wentz - 1997 - 180 pages
...individual—his escape from history. In the midst of a people without history, Emerson could still say: Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy... | |
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