 | John Dewey - 1903 - 412 pàgines
...somewhere said: "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...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs ?" The difficulty lies precisely in our faith in immediate insight and revelation, which are... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 320 pàgines
...accent ? " 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...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pàgines
...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...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pàgines
...seen it before. THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE. cisms. The foregoing generations beheld God face to face. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not of tradition, and a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in Nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pàgines
...criticism. The foregoing -igenerations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by i revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? I Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 378 pàgines
...have " beheld God and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, " also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 pàgines
...have " beheld God and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, " also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "... | |
 | Patrick Augustine Sheehan - 1906 - 372 pàgines
...says : " 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...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in Nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 pàgines
...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 to the...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of this little book. But the year following... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pàgines
...last: " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to fare•. we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
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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... 
