 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
 | 1849 - 448 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...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 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 theira ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 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 ami philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 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... | |
 | 1882 - 972 pages
...through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and of religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " One sees in these words the affirmation... | |
 | 1869 - 580 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 ? This is criticism. But there is a difference between it and ordinary criticism. It is general and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...generations beheld God and nature face to face ; I 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... | |
 | 1870 - 904 pages
...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not \ve have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not a history of theirs? . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool ahd flax in the fields. There... | |
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