 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
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 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...poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ? " The last quotation might well be an introduction to Emerson's second work, The American Scholar... | |
 | Alastair Shannon - 1920 - 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...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" EMERSON (Introduction to Essay on Nature). " Leave, therefore, boldly, though not irreverently, mysticism... | |
 | Johan Huizinga - 1920 - 280 pages
...„Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the uni verse ? Why should not wehaveapoetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition and...history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also." Bij Whitman vindt men dat sentiment op bijna iedere bladzijde. „America (I to myself have said) demands... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 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 aiound and through us, and invite us... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 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,... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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 - 1926 - 412 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,... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - 1997 - 440 pages
...imagination plays us false."21 Creative men should therefore be detached from the vertical generational line: "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs."22 In his monumental study of poetic influence, Harold Bloom negates the line of longitude... | |
 | David Seamon, Arthur Zajonc, Professor of Physics Arthur Zajonc - 1998 - 340 pages
...nature that was not mediated through scripture, prophets and history but could be experienced directly: Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...the history of theirs?... The sun shines today also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts.13 was the project... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 pages
...central questions to be answered in the rest of the work. It begins: 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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