Belief and Disbelief in American LiteratureTom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost. |
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... man the machine can also , apparently of its own volition , place itself in circum- stances that will , as this writer ... man's greed , " indifference to good fails to throw any light upon the origin of " good " as a way by which to ...
... man the machine can also , apparently of its own volition , place itself in circum- stances that will , as this writer ... man's greed , " indifference to good fails to throw any light upon the origin of " good " as a way by which to ...
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... man's imagination marks his superiority appears many times in Twain , but this tribute is countered by the argument that in being gifted with a moral sense , man was given opportunity to degrade himself below the animals , and used it ...
... man's imagination marks his superiority appears many times in Twain , but this tribute is countered by the argument that in being gifted with a moral sense , man was given opportunity to degrade himself below the animals , and used it ...
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... man construct or a being so remote from man as to be meaning- less . The universe is indifferent to man's fate , though the poet nourishes a secret hope that astronomical vastness and the in- conceivability of atomic energy only conceal ...
... man construct or a being so remote from man as to be meaning- less . The universe is indifferent to man's fate , though the poet nourishes a secret hope that astronomical vastness and the in- conceivability of atomic energy only conceal ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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