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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... man's imagination marks his superiority appears many times in Twain , but this tribute is countered by the argument that in being gifted with a moral sense , man was given opportunity to degrade himself below the animals , and used it ...
... man's imagination marks his superiority appears many times in Twain , but this tribute is countered by the argument that in being gifted with a moral sense , man was given opportunity to degrade himself below the animals , and used it ...
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... man is always the product of the moral sense , but Twain's most straightforward statement about this degrading quality ... man's im- perfection by the use of Right Reason . I am of course using the term " eighteenth century " loosely and ...
... man is always the product of the moral sense , but Twain's most straightforward statement about this degrading quality ... man's im- perfection by the use of Right Reason . I am of course using the term " eighteenth century " loosely and ...
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... man is without free will , and that any progress which appears in humanity is solely the result of being somehow ex ... man's willfulness invariably ignores and , in fact , uses as guides to proceed in the direction of evil rather than ...
... man is without free will , and that any progress which appears in humanity is solely the result of being somehow ex ... man's willfulness invariably ignores and , in fact , uses as guides to proceed in the direction of evil rather than ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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