...the weight of history and traditions sent over to them from the Old World. "Our age," Nature begins, "is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the...the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history...

...qualities. It begins thus, with statements which were then paradoxes, but are now commonplaces : — " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes....

...thoughts and utterance. The the teacher. same S pi r it breathes through a thousand variant words : Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why...

...thoughts and utterance. The the teacher. same gpirjt breathes through a thousand variant words : Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes....

...new book the writer appealed to the century against the primary claim of Christianity, exclaiming, " The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...

...his authority rests on his own clarity of vision and directness of insight. " Our age," says Emerson, "is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the...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...

...not ascend to the head-springs of thought, feeling, and life. As Mr. Emerson voices this demand: Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...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...

...pages, called " Nature," published in 1836, indicates all these qualities. It begins thus:— " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why...

...declaration of independence; and it asked, in substance, the question asked in Emerson's " Nature " : " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Pope had said, in his " Essay on Criticism," * " follow Nature," and in order to follow Nature, learn...

...other branches of human culture." 2 A few believers in direct vision, like Emerson, protested : " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticisms." But in this matter Emerson's voice was that of one crying in the wilderness. The fascination...