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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... space ? What if these essential , yet invisible principles are themselves as inferior to their invisible origin as the phenomenal world is inferior to them ? Is it not also conceivable that great moral principles , also invisible , are ...
... space ? What if these essential , yet invisible principles are themselves as inferior to their invisible origin as the phenomenal world is inferior to them ? Is it not also conceivable that great moral principles , also invisible , are ...
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... space in his later books , appears only casually in Mountain Interval ( 1916 ) and does not become a major topic until his sixth book , A Further Range ( 1936 ) , where it has helped create the title . Yet nature taken only as New ...
... space in his later books , appears only casually in Mountain Interval ( 1916 ) and does not become a major topic until his sixth book , A Further Range ( 1936 ) , where it has helped create the title . Yet nature taken only as New ...
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... Space ails us moderns : we are sick with space . Its contemplation makes us out as small As a brief epidemic of microbes That in a good glass may be seen to crawl The patina of this the least of globes . But have we there the advantage ...
... Space ails us moderns : we are sick with space . Its contemplation makes us out as small As a brief epidemic of microbes That in a good glass may be seen to crawl The patina of this the least of globes . But have we there the advantage ...
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