 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 348 páginas
...systematic philosophy; what he wanted above all things was a fresh contact with spiritual realities. "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?" 1 The mystical 1 Complete Works, L, 3. teaching of... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 páginas
...Emerson's career. He struck the key-note of all his writing in his essay on ' Nature,' when he said : ' 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 ? ' This was Emerson's watchword from the beginning... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1915 - 390 páginas
...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 páginas
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...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... | |
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OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation... 
