 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
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 oldal
...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...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs ? ' This was Emerson's watchword from the beginning... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1915 - 390 oldal
...challenge to originality resembles the first address of Emerson, in this very spot, a generation before. " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? " asks the transcendentalist. " Why should not we have a philosophy of insight and not of tradition... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 oldal
...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... | |
 | Alastair Shannon - 1920 - 394 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?" EMERSON (Introduction to Essay on Nature). " Leave,... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1920 - 372 oldal
...children have, such as Emerson referred to when he said : " The earlier generations saw God face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to Nature ? " It might be thought that the more science grows the more feeling should deepen. " All knowledge,"... | |
 | Johan Huizinga - 1920 - 280 oldal
...„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 a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also." Bij Whitman vindt... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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 William Frazer - 1921 - 150 oldal
...Emerson in words that are as applicable to our times as to his, "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 we not have a poetry and a philosophy of insight instead of traditions, and religion by revelation... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 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... | |
 | David Fideler - 2000 - 482 oldal
...writes biographies, histories, 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? . . . The sun shines to-day also Like so much of Emerson's work, Nature is a call for direct experience... | |
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