 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...  The Influence of Emerson - Page 12by Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...through their eyes. Why ehould not we also enjoy our original relation to the universe? Why ehould not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition : an:5 a religion by revelation to us, and not a history et theirs? Emboeomed for a season In nature,... | |
 | 1912 - 720 pages
...that intellectual freedom which ignited all Europe, spread to America, expressed itself in Emerson's "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ?" The Transcendentalisms are a high type of Rigorist, active in our modern thought. But the Cynicism... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | 1880 - 492 pages
...author complaining that our age is too retrospective, and writes biographies alone. " Why should not we enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book Emerson as the Founder of a Literature. SYDNEY SMITH wrote to Lord Grey, in 1818,... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers ; it writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Imbosomed for a season in Nature, whose... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods stream around and through us, and invite us, by the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...fit man they are accepted, if not, thrown aside. This appears in his first book and in his last : " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
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