 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
 | Marlies Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2000 - 342 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?" (1). We have moved away from having experiences, to reading about others' experiences. We prefer the... | |
 | William Edward Leuchtenburg - 2001 - 436 pages
...builds the sepulchres of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...original relation to the universe? . . . Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past?"8 In one respect a long line of earlier presidents had a... | |
 | Joseph J Ellis - 2001 - 290 pages
...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 an original relation to the universe?" But while Emerson's formulation called for rebellion instead of reverence, it sustained the convention... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...künstlerischen Ausdruck zu gelangen: „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?" 7 Diese rhetorisch geschickte Aufforderung zur einem künstlerischen Neubeginn verstellt den Blick... | |
 | Marta Dvořák - 2001 - 288 pages
...artists and writers could identify: 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?" (Nature 5). In "The American Scholar," Emerson insisted on the importance of each age writing its own... | |
 | Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska - 2001 - 332 pages
...the eyes of the foregoing generations. "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?" asks the first paragraph.1 In the last sentence, Emerson holds out the promise that each of his readers... | |
 | Martin Middeke - 2002 - 456 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...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"22 Emerson nimmt hier Nietzsches Kritik an der Geschichtsverfallenheit des modernen Bewusstseins... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...central problem he set for his readers: "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?"30 The universe, according to Emerson, comprised "Nature and the Soul." By "nature," then,... | |
 | Christoph Blomberg - 2003 - 310 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...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" " Nicht zufällig verbindet Emerson in dieser Eingangspassage seines Essays , Nature' (7) die Kritik... | |
 | Milton Gaither - 2003 - 220 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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . .. Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? —Ralph Waldo Emerson On the eve of war... | |
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