 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 American Scholar - 77. oldalszerző: Theodore Parker - 1907 - 534 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | James Lawrence Onderdonk - 1901 - 408 oldal
...biographies, history, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
 | John Dewey - 1903 - 414 oldal
...maintained. Emerson has somewhere said : "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 revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" The difficulty lies precisely in our faith in immediate... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 324 oldal
...veritable and self-vouching accent ? " 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 revelation to us, and not the history of ' theirs ? Why should we grope among the dry bones of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 oldal
...biographies, histories, and criticism. 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 revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 oldal
...seen it before. THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE. cisms. The foregoing generations beheld God face to face. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not of tradition, and a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 378 oldal
...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 ! "... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 oldal
...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 ! "... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1905 - 550 oldal
...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... | |
 | Patrick Augustine Sheehan - 1906 - 372 oldal
...introduction to his Essays he says : " 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 revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in Nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 oldal
...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...of insight and -not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of... | |
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