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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... seem to be unfair to Catholic and Jewish writers , but the difficulty is inherent in the topic and not of my creating . Another general observation seems necessary . We have had countless TOM PAINE AND REPUBLICAN RELIGION.
... seem to be unfair to Catholic and Jewish writers , but the difficulty is inherent in the topic and not of my creating . Another general observation seems necessary . We have had countless TOM PAINE AND REPUBLICAN RELIGION.
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... seems content with a virtually insoluble para- dox : Man is an impersonal engine commanded by external in- fluences only , but this impersonal engine is also subjectively conscious of the need of nourishing its own self - approval ...
... seems content with a virtually insoluble para- dox : Man is an impersonal engine commanded by external in- fluences only , but this impersonal engine is also subjectively conscious of the need of nourishing its own self - approval ...
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... seems to mean that man can be whole and sane if he will only accept nature as an entity that is sane ; that is , not ... seems , to be sure , to imply some sort of personal immortality , but it is a concept of im- mortality that owes ...
... seems to mean that man can be whole and sane if he will only accept nature as an entity that is sane ; that is , not ... seems , to be sure , to imply some sort of personal immortality , but it is a concept of im- mortality that owes ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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