 The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1001848Full view - About this book
 | Michael J. McClymond - 1998 - 207 pages
...generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. 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 tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Nature, in Essays and... | |
 | Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 pages
...Unitarian clergymen wanted to inject more "life," or emotion, into the dry bones of latter-day deism. "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Emerson had asked in Nature. They were called "transcendentalism" initially as a pejorative to suggest... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
..."Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" The emphasis is on the word also. "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"5 Pursuing his own question, Emerson sets out the main benefits we derive from nature, and... | |
 | Joshua David Bellin - 2001 - 294 pages
...generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . . . [W]hy should we grope among the dry bones of the past?" Nature is thus an attempt to find a language... | |
 | John Lardas, John Lardas Modern - 2001 - 340 pages
...of the dominant institutions and standards. As Emerson had asked, "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not to the history of theirs?"33 Also like the Transcendentalists, the Beats attempted to reform the social... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 pages
...universe?" As though to reinforce this simple but profoundly revolutionary idea, he immediately paraphrases: "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Rather than experiencing God at second hand, in the usual fashion, by reading about Him in scriptures... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...society, of imperfect beings." Emerson, Journals. Vol. 2. S. 399. 157 „Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by relevation to us, and not the histroy of theirs?" Emerson, Nature. S. 5, 6-11. 2.3. Der symbolische... | |
 | Robert C. Neville - 2002 - 308 pages
...generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...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,... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us,... | |
 | Martin Middeke - 2002 - 456 pages
...generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"22 Emerson nimmt hier Nietzsches Kritik an der Geschichtsverfallenheit des modernen Bewusstseins... | |
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