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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... sort was making inroads upon trinitarianism in seaboard cities of the Atlantic coast and in the so - called New England belt west of the Hudson ; and by 1825 Channing was instrumental in founding the American Unitarian Association . At ...
... sort was making inroads upon trinitarianism in seaboard cities of the Atlantic coast and in the so - called New England belt west of the Hudson ; and by 1825 Channing was instrumental in founding the American Unitarian Association . At ...
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... sort of higher sympathy and that this sympathy develops in man to the highest level of religious ecstasy . But the argument is not wholly convincing . Are there grades in absolute being , some accessible to the worm and others ...
... sort of higher sympathy and that this sympathy develops in man to the highest level of religious ecstasy . But the argument is not wholly convincing . Are there grades in absolute being , some accessible to the worm and others ...
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... sort of rite of passage , a mystically foreshadowed and necessary way of reunion with cos- mic energy - with , if you like , the divine energy . The human spirit , he wrote in 1860 , ebbs like the ocean , but the cosmic process seems 88 ...
... sort of rite of passage , a mystically foreshadowed and necessary way of reunion with cos- mic energy - with , if you like , the divine energy . The human spirit , he wrote in 1860 , ebbs like the ocean , but the cosmic process seems 88 ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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