 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...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 9by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Michael J. McClymond - 1998 - 207 pages
...builds the sepulchres of the fathers.... The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Nature, in Essays and... | |
 | 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...revelation to us and not the history of theirs?... The sun shines today also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men,... | |
 | Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 pages
...Unitarian clergymen wanted to inject more "life," or emotion, into the dry bones of latter-day deism. "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Emerson had asked in Nature. They were called "transcendentalism" initially as a pejorative to suggest... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...age is retrospective." He mourns that "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?" Europe keeps us from experiencing ourselves as ourselves, as originary. Europe turns life into a library... | |
 | Anne Buttimer, L. Wallin - 1999 - 380 pages
...visited Muir in his cabin, had written, 'The foregoing generanons beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?' (1835, in Finch and Elder, p.45.) Most nations, including those of Native Americans, have a bloody... | |
 | Joshua David Bellin - 2001 - 294 pages
...builds the sepulchres of the fathers The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . . . [W]hy should we grope among the dry bones of the past?" Nature is thus an attempt to find a language... | |
 | John Lardas, John Lardas Modern - 2001 - 340 pages
...religiosity, free from the infringement of the dominant institutions and standards. As Emerson had asked, "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not to the history of theirs?"33 Also like the Transcendentalists, the Beats attempted to reform the social... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 pages
...universe?" As though to reinforce this simple but profoundly revolutionary idea, he immediately paraphrases: "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Rather than experiencing God at second hand, in the usual fashion, by reading about Him in scriptures... | |
 | David Fideler - 2000 - 482 pages
...writes biographies, histories, criticism. 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? . . . The sun shines to-day also Like so much of Emerson's work, Nature is a call for direct experience... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...biographies, histories, and criticism. 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?" (CW, 1:7). Emerson frequently gives voice to his generation's desire to make its own mark. Nature's... | |
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