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" 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 100
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 9

John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...OF NATURE. cisms. 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,...
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Nature ; Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...-igenerations 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 i revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? I Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods...
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A Reader's History of American Literature

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 378 pages
...and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, " also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "...
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A Reader's History of American Literature

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 pages
...and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, " also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "...
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A Short History of American Literature

Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 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...
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Early Essays and Lectures

Patrick Augustine Sheehan - 1906 - 372 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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Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker], Volume 8

Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 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...
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The Works of Theodore Parker: The American scholar

Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 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...
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The American Scholar

Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...generations beheld God and nature face to fareā€¢. 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...
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A Bookman's Letters

Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 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 was Emerson's watchword from the beginning to the end. He did not disparage the past. Much...
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