...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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...

...author complaining that our age is too retrospective, and writes biographies alone. " Why should not we enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book Emerson as the Founder of a Literature. SYDNEY SMITH wrote to Lord Grey, in 1818,...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers ; it writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Imbosomed for a season in Nature, whose...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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 stream...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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 stream...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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, whoso floods of...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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...

...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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...

...through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " (EMEBSON.) The life of the future—socially, politically,...