...recognize here an unmistakable echo of the opening paragraph of Nature ("Our age is retrospective . . . why should we grope among the dry bones of the past,...generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe. . . . There are new lands, new men, new thoughts"). What this echo should tell us is that the very...

...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 past,...wardrobe. The sun shines to-day also. . . . There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. (E&L 7) Even...

...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the...of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature. We have theories of races and of functions,...

...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? Ralph Waldo Emerson1 It goes without saying that our bodies are influenced by our environment. Mood...

...nature, and see what new ideas this brings. "Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us, by the...should we grope among the dry bones of the past?" It seems particularly telling that Emerson wrote these words, with their central metaphor of the "flood...

...old curiosity shop or an old duffer on Golden Pond. To read or study with McDermott today is not to "grope among the dry bones of the past or put the...generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe." It is rather to experience an originality of an angle of vision that Emerson calls infantine and which...

...death," so did Emerson decide that "our age is retrospective. It builds the sepukhers of the fathers — Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past,...living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?"8 A broader paradox also lurks. Notwithstanding the primary genocide of its natives, North...

...the world around them and said, 'Why should not we enjoy an original relation to the universe? ... The sun shines today also. There is more wool and flax in the field' (1966, p. 27). If Emerson felt that his fellow citizens had lost an original relation to the...

...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us, by the...faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is moro wool and flax The Ъ-ansccndentalists of Concord. 247 in the fields. There are new lands, new...

...blickt beseelt von der Natur in die Zukunft: Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us, by the...wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. [...] There are new lands, new men, new thoughts.156 Füller spielt auf Emersons Bild des Individuums an, das die...