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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... human sin and human weakness , the aristocracy of the elected few and the hopeless condition of the many who were damned ? Law , education , medicine were to be revolutionized in the young republic , and there was even talk about the ...
... human sin and human weakness , the aristocracy of the elected few and the hopeless condition of the many who were damned ? Law , education , medicine were to be revolutionized in the young republic , and there was even talk about the ...
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... human animal is more than an improved species of beast . Man is in fact set apart from the rest of nature by spirit , or , more accurately , by the consciousness of spirit . Emer- son's attribution of spirit to the individual is ...
... human animal is more than an improved species of beast . Man is in fact set apart from the rest of nature by spirit , or , more accurately , by the consciousness of spirit . Emer- son's attribution of spirit to the individual is ...
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... human beings totally escape the inglorious human predicament . Such a one was Joan of Arc . Such another was Olivia Clemens . In fact it would be easy to go through his writings and cull out instance after instance of human generosity ...
... human beings totally escape the inglorious human predicament . Such a one was Joan of Arc . Such another was Olivia Clemens . In fact it would be easy to go through his writings and cull out instance after instance of human generosity ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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