 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...  Massachusetts Quarterly Review - Page 2151849Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 pages
...is the same thought in the Preface to "The Excursion" that we find in the Introduction to "Nature." "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 ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. 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 ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...the same thought in the Preface to "The Excursion" that we find in the Introduction to "Nature." " 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 ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...is the same thought in the Preface to "The Excursion" that we find in the Introduction to "Nature." "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? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...is the same thought in the Preface to "The Excursion" that we find in the Introduction to "Nature." "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion hy revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
 | 1894 - 444 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of our fathers. It writes biographies, history and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1894 - 200 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 394 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. 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? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 396 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of iiisight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed... | |
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