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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... creation of new religious sects such as the Millerites , the Mormons , and the Spiritualists ; upon the rela- tion , official and unofficial , of churches to education in the United States ; upon the split created in leading Protestant ...
... creation of new religious sects such as the Millerites , the Mormons , and the Spiritualists ; upon the rela- tion , official and unofficial , of churches to education in the United States ; upon the split created in leading Protestant ...
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... created and supervised by an infinitely remote engineer . He adopted also from his readings in popular astronomy con- cepts of the enormity of space and the littleness of the solar sys- tem . Seeing then and later the perpetual ...
... created and supervised by an infinitely remote engineer . He adopted also from his readings in popular astronomy con- cepts of the enormity of space and the littleness of the solar sys- tem . Seeing then and later the perpetual ...
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... created , that it accidentally hit on mind , and that man is the purpose of creation . Frost , however , comments that it — that is , the universe - must have had the pur- pose from the first to produce purpose in man , who is “ just ...
... created , that it accidentally hit on mind , and that man is the purpose of creation . Frost , however , comments that it — that is , the universe - must have had the pur- pose from the first to produce purpose in man , who is “ just ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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