 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...  A Reader's History of American Literature - Page 160by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pages
...The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through our eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not a history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature,... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...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...poetry and philosophy 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,... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...of the past." He will not see through the eyes of others, " Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...poetry 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? Let... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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 ?...poetry and philosophy 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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 ?...poetry and philosophy 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,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...of the past." He will not see through the eyes of others, " Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...poetry 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? Let... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...past." He will not see through the eyes of others. "Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy aп original relation to the universe ? Why should not...poetry 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 ! Let... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 408 pages
...foregoing generation^ beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?...poetry and philosophy 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...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 ?...poetry and philosophy 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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...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 ?...poetry and philosophy 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,... | |
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