 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 4051888Full view - About this book
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1906 - 324 pages
...its introduction announced that its author had broken with the past. " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...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... | |
 | Patrick Augustine Sheehan - English essays - 1906 - 372 pages
...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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in Nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1907 - 552 pages
...generations beheld God and nature face to fare•. we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...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... | |
 | John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 348 pages
...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...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" 1 The mystical 1 Complete Works, L, 3. teaching of Plotinus satisfied these needs, as will appear when... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 462 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Joseph Long - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 588 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alastair Shannon - Life - 1920 - 394 pages
...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...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" EMERSON (Introduction to Essay on Nature). " Leave, therefore, boldly, though not irreverently, mysticism... | |
 | Johan Huizinga - National characteristics, American - 1920 - 280 pages
...„Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the uni verse ? Why should not wehaveapoetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition and...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also." Bij Whitman vindt men dat sentiment op bijna iedere bladzijde.... | |
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