 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
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 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, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 396 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 iiisight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1897 - 388 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...history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also. . . . Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable." This was his first doctrine,... | |
 | John Trevor - 1897 - 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...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 pages
...and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God face to face. 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 of tradition, and a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in Nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 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... | |
 | James Lawrence Onderdonk - 1901 - 408 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... | |
 | John Dewey - 1903 - 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...revelation to us and not the history of theirs ? " The difficulty lies precisely in our faith in immediate insight and revelation, which are themselves only... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 324 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 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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