..."Our age is reduced to the sepulchre of the fathers; it writes biographies, histories, and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...also enjoy an original relation to the Universe?" He tells of the delight he feels in the presence of God's creation, and sees in it a source not merely...

...in direct vision, like Emerson, protested: i Dialogues phil, 265. * Avrnir de la science, 132. " 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...

...challenge to originality resembles the first address of Emerson, in this very spot, a generation before. " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? " asks the transcendentalist. " Why should not we have a philosophy of insight and not of tradition...

...melodiously in winds or waters ; and always it is an inspiration to learn wisdom at first hand : " 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....

...as many children have, such as Emerson referred to when he said : " The earlier generations saw God face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to Nature ? " It might be thought that the more science grows the more feeling should deepen. " All knowledge,"...

..."The foregoing generations," wrote Emerson in words that are as applicable to our times as to his, "beheld God and nature face to face; we through their...enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and a philosophy of insight instead of traditions, and religion by revelation...

..."Our age is reduced to the sepulchre of the fathers; it writes biographies, histories, and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...also enjoy an original relation to the Universe?" He tells of the delight he feels in the presence of God's creation, and sees in it a source not merely...

...how near he was to quoting Emerson himself — "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories,...original relation to the universe? . . . Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded...

...Ibid., J, IV, 85. EVERY Age, like every human body, has its own distemper. Ibid., E, III, 481. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Emerson, E, II, 371. I CANNOT think Nature is so spent and decayed, that she can bring forth nothing...

...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."...