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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... reason will be paramount , and if controversies arise , men will have but to think , when they can neither act wrongly nor be misled . Govern- ment , he says , is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of ...
... reason will be paramount , and if controversies arise , men will have but to think , when they can neither act wrongly nor be misled . Govern- ment , he says , is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of ...
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... Reason , a word he spells with a capital letter . Reason is for him not a logical process but rather the capacity of the spirit in man to grasp immediately truths that lie beyond ordinary logic and common sense and that are also the ...
... Reason , a word he spells with a capital letter . Reason is for him not a logical process but rather the capacity of the spirit in man to grasp immediately truths that lie beyond ordinary logic and common sense and that are also the ...
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... reason for saying this is that in Frost's two masques about reason and justice God is neither the stern and majestic Yahve of the Book of Job nor the logician of Voltaire's universe . If God is the Person of Persons of some sys- tems of ...
... reason for saying this is that in Frost's two masques about reason and justice God is neither the stern and majestic Yahve of the Book of Job nor the logician of Voltaire's universe . If God is the Person of Persons of some sys- tems of ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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