 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 901864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 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 ? ' This was Emerson's watchword from the beginning to the end. He did not disparage the past. Much... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 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...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... | |
 | Alastair Shannon - 1920 - 394 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?" EMERSON (Introduction to Essay on Nature). " Leave, therefore, boldly, though not irreverently, mysticism... | |
 | Johan Huizinga - 1920 - 280 páginas
...„Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the uni verse ? Why should not wehaveapoetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition and...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also." Bij Whitman vindt men dat sentiment op bijna iedere bladzijde.... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 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...for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream aiound and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why... | |
 | Richard A. Talaska - 1992 - 464 páginas
...generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? 5 If nothing could be more plain than Emerson's... | |
 | Gilya Gerda Schmidt - 1995 - 204 páginas
...Emerson to be a courageous man, like Nietzsche. Emerson boldly asked: "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? . . . There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 páginas
...thought and culture. Speaking of his forerunners, he asks, " Why should we not have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" (italics added). The burden of developing such a radical experientialism fell not only to Emerson and... | |
 | Anthony David Moody - 1996 - 230 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...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs.'19 Eliot meditated more deeply and more darkly upon the word 'original' than Emerson, and connected... | |
 | Michael Kowalewski - 1996 - 322 páginas
...historical figure. Emerson's historical enthusiasm for novelty was as boundless as mainstream America's. "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition," he asks in Nature. "It is essential to the true theory of man and nature that it should contain something... | |
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