 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...  Littell's Living Age - Página 1001848Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Christoph Blomberg - 2003 - 310 páginas
...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...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" " Nicht zufällig verbindet Emerson in dieser Eingangspassage seines Essays , Nature' (7) die Kritik... | |
 | Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 páginas
...into the domination of the individual and the nation over tradition: "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" ("Nature," SE: 35). The overcoming of tradition was justified by the abovementioned paradox according... | |
 | Milton Gaither - 2003 - 220 páginas
...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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . .. Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? —Ralph Waldo Emerson On the eve of war... | |
 | Ron Scapp - 2003 - 212 páginas
...Ralph Waldo Emerson asks \\-hy should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe' \\Tiy should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight...by 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,... | |
 | Richard E. Wentz - 476 páginas
...enterprise. "Why should we not . . . enjoy an original relation to the universe?" asked Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us . . . why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? ... In the woods is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 páginas
...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...by 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2004 - 428 páginas
...foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we have an original relation to the universe? Why should not...by 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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 276 páginas
...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" he asked. "Why should not we have ... a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Truth, God, Nature are, not were. Rather than read and base our lives upon the scriptures of previous... | |
 | Frances E. Vaughan - 2005 - 319 páginas
...live up to it.1^ In the West, Ralph Waldo Emerson said it this way: Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? " The problem that many thoughtful people have with religion is that it seems to offer illusions in place... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 páginas
...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...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" It should be noted, lest he seem too airy in his aspirations to bear any comparison at all to the nuts... | |
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