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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Page 66
... difficulty of postulating man as liv- ing simultaneously in time and in eternity , whereas in most reli- gions man is born into time and dies into eternity . His difficulty can conceivably be met , but it cannot be argued that he makes ...
... difficulty of postulating man as liv- ing simultaneously in time and in eternity , whereas in most reli- gions man is born into time and dies into eternity . His difficulty can conceivably be met , but it cannot be argued that he makes ...
Page 67
... difficulty of all mysticism ; in another sense , given Emerson's practical grasp upon the world of things as they are , it is sur- prising that he never faced his central dilemma : for him man remains an infinite being only randomly ...
... difficulty of all mysticism ; in another sense , given Emerson's practical grasp upon the world of things as they are , it is sur- prising that he never faced his central dilemma : for him man remains an infinite being only randomly ...
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... difficulty is to explain how any concept of public good can pos- sibly arise . What Is Man ? purports to be a systematic treatise , but its logical difficulties are so patent as to require little further discus- sion . Obviously Twain ...
... difficulty is to explain how any concept of public good can pos- sibly arise . What Is Man ? purports to be a systematic treatise , but its logical difficulties are so patent as to require little further discus- sion . Obviously Twain ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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