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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... principles of society , which are given by God . The great glory of the American Revolution was that it returned to prin- ciple ; the great glory of the American constitution is that it rests on universal principles of reason , an ...
... principles of society , which are given by God . The great glory of the American Revolution was that it returned to prin- ciple ; the great glory of the American constitution is that it rests on universal principles of reason , an ...
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... principles . Yet mechanical principles do not operate of themselves . Nor are they in themselves visible ; all that we can see is the phenom- enal manifestation of invisible principles or powers at work in matter . But if the ...
... principles . Yet mechanical principles do not operate of themselves . Nor are they in themselves visible ; all that we can see is the phenom- enal manifestation of invisible principles or powers at work in matter . But if the ...
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... principles are themselves as inferior to their invisible origin as the phenomenal world is inferior to them ? Is it not also conceivable that great moral principles , also invisible , are like the unseen forces that keep the stars in ...
... principles are themselves as inferior to their invisible origin as the phenomenal world is inferior to them ? Is it not also conceivable that great moral principles , also invisible , are like the unseen forces that keep the stars in ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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