| Christopher Bigsby - 2006 - 377 páginas
...their faces preserved, their lives memorialised. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 'Nature', regretted that 'Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?'21 He spoke, it turned out, not just for a confrontation with the natural world but for a... | |
| R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 páginas
...central tenet of Transcendentalism: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face. . . . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Indeed, much of Transcendentalism can be summed up as the individual's quest for an "original relation... | |
| George Kateb - 2006 - 458 páginas
...even as it also helped to inspire modern democracy. Emerson asks in his first book, Nature (1836), "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (7). American democratic wildness often stems from that very impulse, anarchic, desocialized, religious,... | |
| Roger Lundin - 2007 - 282 páginas
...willfulness, Emerson began Nature with a blunt challenge to the past, which meant for him the dead: "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" The need was great for a direct, unmediated experience of the divine: "Why should not we have a poetry... | |
| G. W. Kimura - 2007 - 188 páginas
...Nature. it was something basic to intellectual life that had once been articulated, but now was lost: Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?24... | |
| Christopher T. Daly, John Doody, Kim Paffenroth - 2008 - 344 páginas
...of Religion, 453. 8 A True History of Ourselves: Augustine, Carlyle, and the Case for Biography Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1840) IDOK AT THE BOOKSHELVES IN THE LOCAL BARNES AND NOBLE, one would... | |
| Damien François - 2007 - 582 páginas
...as basis for knowledge". In 1836, in his book, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson thus complains that "our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes"1078. Some eighteen years later, in his famous Walden, Thoreau bemoans the rampant vanishing of... | |
| Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 páginas
...searing indictment of a backwards-looking culture of death. "Our age is retrospective," he complains. "It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes...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?... | |
| Charles Capper - 1994 - 456 páginas
...Emerson began. "It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" At the end, mounting higher, he had "a certain poet" sing out for him, '"A man is a god in ruins,'"... | |
| Martha Banta - 2007 - 336 páginas
...while sustaining the principles of the powers of human reason. Part Two CAPITOL OF BEST INTENTIONS Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836) Have we not molded a giant statue, not out of marble or brass,... | |
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