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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... doctrine . IV What , then , did Paine believe ? Eloquently he presents a theory of deism toward the conclusion of Part One of The Age of Reason , and it is presumably this expression of faith in a rational God , a rational universe ...
... doctrine . IV What , then , did Paine believe ? Eloquently he presents a theory of deism toward the conclusion of Part One of The Age of Reason , and it is presumably this expression of faith in a rational God , a rational universe ...
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... doctrine of the inviolability of the personality and of education as a process of unfolding latent per- ceptions preceded and nourished the progressive doctrine in twentieth - century education . What is one to do amid this rich ...
... doctrine of the inviolability of the personality and of education as a process of unfolding latent per- ceptions preceded and nourished the progressive doctrine in twentieth - century education . What is one to do amid this rich ...
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... doctrine of ecstasy or spiritual intuition ; in the other , his doctrine of the corre- spondence in nature between divinity and the soul . Prosperity and equalitarianism were the enemies of this kind of Augustinian theology , and in an ...
... doctrine of ecstasy or spiritual intuition ; in the other , his doctrine of the corre- spondence in nature between divinity and the soul . Prosperity and equalitarianism were the enemies of this kind of Augustinian theology , and in an ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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