 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 revelation to us, and not the history of...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Page 9by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Herman Friedrich Grimm - 1886 - 332 pages
...the weight of history and traditions sent over to them from the Old World. "Our age," Nature begins, "is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the...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... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...thoughts and utterance. The the teacher. same S pi r it breathes through a thousand variant words : Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...qualities. It begins thus, with statements which were then paradoxes, but are now commonplaces : — " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes.... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...thoughts and utterance. The the teacher. same gpirjt breathes through a thousand variant words : Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes.... | |
 | William Hague - 1888 - 386 pages
...new book the writer appealed to the century against the primary claim of Christianity, exclaiming, " The foregoing 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 we have a poetry and philosophy of... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1894 - 200 pages
...his authority rests on his own clarity of vision and directness of insight. " Our age," says Emerson, "is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 396 pages
...not ascend to the head-springs of thought, feeling, and life. As Mr. Emerson voices this demand: Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of iiisight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1897 - 388 pages
...pages, called " Nature," published in 1836, indicates all these qualities. It begins thus:— " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ernest Renan - 1902 - 314 pages
...other branches of human culture." 2 A few believers in direct vision, like Emerson, protested : " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticisms." But in this matter Emerson's voice was that of one crying in the wilderness. The fascination... | |
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