 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
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...in the Introduction to " Nature." " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by reve lation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " "Paradise and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields... | |
 | William Hague - 1884 - 84 pages
...generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes : why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not...by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" GENERAL REUNION IN PROVIDENCE, RI During the following year, 1837, soon after my removal from Boston... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 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 universe1 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...through their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not wo have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion hy revelation to us, and not tho history of theirs 1 . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1885 - 530 pages
...their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe 1 Why should not wo liave a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not tho history of theirs 1 . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields."... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...writes biographies, histories, criticisms. 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 ? As a plant on the earth, so man rests on the bosom of God, nourished by unfailing fountains, and... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...face ; we, through their eyes. "Why should not we also enjoy our original relation to the'universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also. . . . Undoubtedly we have no questions to usk which are unanswerable."... | |
 | Herman Friedrich Grimm - 1886 - 332 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...the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...biographies, histories, criticisms. 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 ? As a plant on the earth, so man rests on the bosom of God, nourished by unfailing fountains, and... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...American thought, and the words of its introduction announced that its author had broken with the past. " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...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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