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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... beginning universally accepted a Christian God , a providential ordering of events , the immortality of the soul , and the doctrines of individual salvation or damna- tion . In 1789 , however , there was a general drift of opinion among ...
... beginning universally accepted a Christian God , a providential ordering of events , the immortality of the soul , and the doctrines of individual salvation or damna- tion . In 1789 , however , there was a general drift of opinion among ...
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... beginning : the infliction upon man of the Moral Sense ; the ability to distin- guish good from evil ; and with it , necessarily , the ability to do evil ; for there can be no evil act without the presence of consciousness of it in the ...
... beginning : the infliction upon man of the Moral Sense ; the ability to distin- guish good from evil ; and with it , necessarily , the ability to do evil ; for there can be no evil act without the presence of consciousness of it in the ...
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... beginning of our troubles in Southeast Asia . During his life there were invented the tele- phone , X - rays , the radio , the motion picture , television , the auto- mobile , the airplane , the Xerox machine , the electric typewriter ...
... beginning of our troubles in Southeast Asia . During his life there were invented the tele- phone , X - rays , the radio , the motion picture , television , the auto- mobile , the airplane , the Xerox machine , the electric typewriter ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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