...his first book and in his last: " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to fare•. we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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...

...systematic philosophy; what he wanted above all things was a fresh contact with spiritual realities. "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" 1 The mystical 1 Complete Works, L, 3. teaching of...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. u revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of...

..."Nature". "It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"22 Emerson nimmt hier Nietzsches Kritik an der Geschichtsverfallenheit...

...(1836), Emerson's spectacular philosophical debut, define the central problem he set for his readers: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"30 The universe, according to Emerson, comprised "Nature and the Soul." By "nature," then,...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes" (Essays 7). 31. See Marjorie Perloff, The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes."4 The allusion here, of course, is to St. Paul, but the specific emphasis is on the contrast...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . .. Why should we grope among the dry bones of the...

...retrospective. h builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld god and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" " Nicht zufällig verbindet Emerson in dieser Eingangspassage...

...tradition thus evolved with Emerson into the domination of the individual and the nation over tradition: "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" ("Nature," SE: 35). The overcoming of tradition was...