 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
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...in revolutionary fashion: "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers . . . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" And so, "Let us demand our own works and laws and worship." Turning his back on tradition, Emerson... | |
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