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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... thought a good Catholic quite as good as a good Calvinist . He was brought up in a Presbyterian community ; but he was not baptized until he was sixty - four . He was a Unitarian who believed in the divin- ity of Christ . Few people ...
... thought a good Catholic quite as good as a good Calvinist . He was brought up in a Presbyterian community ; but he was not baptized until he was sixty - four . He was a Unitarian who believed in the divin- ity of Christ . Few people ...
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... thought as garbage and hinted that the president of the United States , obviously a Unitarian or a deist and obviously therefore an infidel , slept nightly in the arms of a black mistress . Respectable Boston Unitarianism found itself ...
... thought as garbage and hinted that the president of the United States , obviously a Unitarian or a deist and obviously therefore an infidel , slept nightly in the arms of a black mistress . Respectable Boston Unitarianism found itself ...
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... thought of far more systematic professional philosophers . It is fatally easy to find logical contradictions in Emerson . But the in- sight of the poet is sometimes worth more than the syllogisms of the metaphysician . In 1865 , says ...
... thought of far more systematic professional philosophers . It is fatally easy to find logical contradictions in Emerson . But the in- sight of the poet is sometimes worth more than the syllogisms of the metaphysician . In 1865 , says ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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