 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
 | 1888 - 632 pages
...generations," he writes, " beheld God 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 ? " It is this doctrine of self-reliance, illustrated by fresh examples, enforced under new aspects,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 pages
...generations,' he writes, ' beheld God 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 ? ' It is this doctrine of selfreliance, illustrated by fresh examples, enforced under new aspects,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...introduction announced that its author had broken with the past. " 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?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of this little book. But the year following its publication... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 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 ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields, — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 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? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields, — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 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 ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields, — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 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...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion hy revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
 | 1894 - 444 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...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1894 - 200 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? Embosomed for a season... | |
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