...retrospective," he observed in Nature. "It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" But while Emerson's formulation called for rebellion instead of reverence, it sustained the convention...

...Mutterlandes, um zu einem originären künstlerischen Ausdruck zu gelangen: „The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" 7 Diese rhetorisch geschickte Aufforderung zur einem künstlerischen Neubeginn verstellt den Blick...

...sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"22 Emerson nimmt hier Nietzsches Kritik an der Geschichtsverfallenheit des modernen Bewusstseins...

...philosophical debut, define the central problem he set for his readers: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"30 The universe, according to Emerson, comprised "Nature and the Soul." By "nature," then,...

...sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their...we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? 2 5 This passage permits certain modes of mediation while refusing others. The "original," unmediated...

..."awakening" from the slumber of derivativeness. Emerson complains in 1836 that "the foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face: we, through their...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (Nature, I).1 Moore was herself a persistent critic of her culture's tendency, as she writes in "Poetry,"...

...American inability to comprehend the significance of tradition when he said, "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"3 Of course, we do enjoy an original relation to the universe, but it is never absolute....

...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 have an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight...

...the eyes of those earlier generations, as though God and Nature were no longer directly accessible. "Why 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?"...

...Emerson wrote in the opening passages of Nature, seeking to express the birthright for his generation. "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"1' Toward the conclusion of Nature, Emerson announced that he was going to devote himself to...