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" 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... "
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Página 9
por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
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Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards

Michael J. McClymond - 1998 - 207 páginas
...builds the sepulchres of the fathers.... The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Nature, in Essays and...
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Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature

David Seamon, Arthur Zajonc, Professor of Physics Arthur Zajonc - 1998 - 340 páginas
...nature that was not mediated through scripture, prophets and history but could be experienced directly: Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...revelation to us and not the history of theirs?... The sun shines today also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men,...
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Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself

Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 páginas
...Unitarian clergymen wanted to inject more "life," or emotion, into the dry bones of latter-day deism. "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Emerson had asked in Nature. They were called "transcendentalism" initially as a pejorative to suggest...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 páginas
...age is retrospective." He mourns that "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?" Europe keeps us from experiencing ourselves as ourselves, as originary. Europe turns life into a library...
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Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Anne Buttimer, L. Wallin - 1999 - 380 páginas
...visited Muir in his cabin, had written, 'The foregoing generanons beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?' (1835, in Finch and Elder, p.45.) Most nations, including those of Native Americans, have a bloody...
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The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature

Joshua David Bellin - 2001 - 294 páginas
...builds the sepulchres of the fathers The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . . . [W]hy should we grope among the dry bones of the past?" Nature is thus an attempt to find a language...
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The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs

John Lardas, John Lardas Modern - 2001 - 340 páginas
...religiosity, free from the infringement of the dominant institutions and standards. As Emerson had asked, "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not to the history of theirs?"33 Also like the Transcendentalists, the Beats attempted to reform the social...
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Wild Fruits: Thoreaus Rediscovered Last Manuscript

Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 páginas
...universe?" As though to reinforce this simple but profoundly revolutionary idea, he immediately paraphrases: "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Rather than experiencing God at second hand, in the usual fashion, by reading about Him in scriptures...
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Alexandria 5: Cosmology, Philosophy, Myth, and Culture, Volume 5

David Fideler - 2000 - 482 páginas
...writes biographies, histories, criticism. 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? . . . The sun shines to-day also Like so much of Emerson's work, Nature is a call for direct experience...
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A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 páginas
...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 to the universe?" (CW, 1:7). Emerson frequently gives voice to his generation's desire to make its own mark. Nature's...
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