 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...  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 11by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875
...the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. /^^VUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the \_^J fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism....through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an i original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1893
...The words of Emerson are true: " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes." Occasionally we leave the past and dream of a God that is to be. We are going to him. We are to see... | |
 | James Platt - 1883
...angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." BEAUMONT AND FLETCHEB. " OUB age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers; it writes biographies, histories, and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we still see too much through... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
...retrospeetive. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographics, historics, and eriticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through thcir eyes. AVhy should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 321 pages
...be man, the worm Mount* through all the spires of form. V . r . •t ' V • . > INTRODUCTION. Ouu age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...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... | |
 | William Hague - 1884 - 31 pages
...book, the writer appealed to the century against the primary claim of Christianity, exclaiming : " The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...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... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 447 pages
...original relations with God. It is the same spirit as that of the opening lines of " Nature : " — "The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not wo have a poetry and philosophy... | |
 | George J. Johnson - 1885
...and expressed it clearly in those remarkable words with which his Essay on Nature begins : " Our •" age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It •" writes biographies, history, criticism." Those words were written nearly fifty years ago, and every subsequent year's experience... | |
 | Birmingham Public Libraries - 1885
...and expressed it clearly in those remarkable words with which his Essay on Nature begins : " Our " age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It " writes biographies, history, criticism." Those words were written nearly fifty years ago, and every subsequent year's experience... | |
 | Herman Friedrich Grimm - 1886 - 297 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... | |
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