 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 - 1884 - 398 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... | |
 | 1884 - 354 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? Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe1 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs 1 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of lif o stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...through their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not wo have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion hy revelation to us, and not tho history of theirs 1 . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1885 - 530 pages
...their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe 1 Why should not wo liave a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not tho history of theirs 1 . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields."... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 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 ? As a plant on the earth, so man rests on the bosom of God, nourished by unfailing fountains, and... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...face ; we, through their eyes. "Why should not we also enjoy our original relation to the'universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also. . . . Undoubtedly we have no questions to usk which are unanswerable." This was his first doctrine,... | |
 | Herman Friedrich Grimm - 1886 - 332 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 a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 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 ? As a plant on the earth, so man rests on the bosom of God, nourished by unfailing fountains, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 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... | |
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