 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 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 - 1883 - 674 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 - 1883 - 428 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 - 1883 - 394 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, whoso floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 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 stream around and through us, and invite us, by the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...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...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of thcirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " (EMEBSON.) The life of the future—socially, politically, and religiously—will depend upon the... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1883 - 612 pages
...Why should, not we enjoy an original relation to 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 a history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields.... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1884 - 840 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... | |
 | William Hague - 1884 - 84 pages
...generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes : why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not...by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" GENERAL REUNION IN PROVIDENCE, RI During the following year, 1837, soon after my removal from Boston... | |
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