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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... existence , and I search in things for a cause and find none . Can I find out the Almighty to perfection ? No , answers Paine , He is incomprehensible . But incomprehensibility in Paine's vocabulary is a word of specialized meaning ...
... existence , and I search in things for a cause and find none . Can I find out the Almighty to perfection ? No , answers Paine , He is incomprehensible . But incomprehensibility in Paine's vocabulary is a word of specialized meaning ...
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... existence that is the ground of all being . Why is it thus momen- tarily separated from essential and universal being Emerson never quite makes clear , but he accepts this separateness as a fact in experience . By reason of this ...
... existence that is the ground of all being . Why is it thus momen- tarily separated from essential and universal being Emerson never quite makes clear , but he accepts this separateness as a fact in experience . By reason of this ...
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... Existence " in A Boy's Will seems , to be sure , to imply some sort of personal immortality , but it is a concept of im- mortality that owes more to Swedenborg and Browning than it owes to the Bible . The point of this early poem seems ...
... Existence " in A Boy's Will seems , to be sure , to imply some sort of personal immortality , but it is a concept of im- mortality that owes more to Swedenborg and Browning than it owes to the Bible . The point of this early poem seems ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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