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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... deity ; and at what stage does the race thus become competent ? Is access to the transcendental vision equally possible to an Australian bushman , a Digger Indian , an African pygmy , and a cultivated Unitarian clergyman ? And will they ...
... deity ; and at what stage does the race thus become competent ? Is access to the transcendental vision equally possible to an Australian bushman , a Digger Indian , an African pygmy , and a cultivated Unitarian clergyman ? And will they ...
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... deity , but the indifferent God of Thomas Hardy . Twain's twenty years of wandering were , I suggest , far more in- fluential in molding his outlook than the mild Christianity of Hannibal , Missouri , which in later years seemed to him ...
... deity , but the indifferent God of Thomas Hardy . Twain's twenty years of wandering were , I suggest , far more in- fluential in molding his outlook than the mild Christianity of Hannibal , Missouri , which in later years seemed to him ...
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... deity give matter an initial push , a first action , and from this first act every other event mercilessly follows . Whether the law of cause and effect existed intellectually prior to the universe , so that the operation of matter had ...
... deity give matter an initial push , a first action , and from this first act every other event mercilessly follows . Whether the law of cause and effect existed intellectually prior to the universe , so that the operation of matter had ...
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