...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing -igenerations 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 i revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? I Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods...

...have " beheld God 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...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 ! "...

...have " beheld God and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, " also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?...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 ! "...

...biographies, histories, and criticisms. 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?" He tells of the delight he feels in the presence of God's creation, and sees in it a source not merely...

...in'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...

...appears in his first book and in his last: "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 a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of...

...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...

...in his first book and in his last: " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to facei 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...

...essay on ' Nature,' when he said : ' 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 ? ' This was Emerson's watchword from the beginning to the end. He did not disparage the past. Much...

...biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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...