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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... mankind on some sort of equalitarian basis in which monarchy and tradition shall have no part . In this ad- mirably planned universe every man has natural liberty . This natural liberty can be made to pass smoothly into civil liberty in ...
... mankind on some sort of equalitarian basis in which monarchy and tradition shall have no part . In this ad- mirably planned universe every man has natural liberty . This natural liberty can be made to pass smoothly into civil liberty in ...
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... , and who said : Under how many subtilties , or absurdities , has the divine right to govern been imposed on the credulity of mankind . → II + LANDSCAPE AS RELIGION : IRVING , BRYANT 23 TOM PAINE AND REPUBLICAN RELIGION.
... , and who said : Under how many subtilties , or absurdities , has the divine right to govern been imposed on the credulity of mankind . → II + LANDSCAPE AS RELIGION : IRVING , BRYANT 23 TOM PAINE AND REPUBLICAN RELIGION.
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... mankind . The poem is commonplace as philos- ophy , but moving as emotion . The emotional impact of the poem is what I may call one of stoic meliorism , scarcely that of triumphant Christianity . I am somehow reminded of a poem of Rilke ...
... mankind . The poem is commonplace as philos- ophy , but moving as emotion . The emotional impact of the poem is what I may call one of stoic meliorism , scarcely that of triumphant Christianity . I am somehow reminded of a poem of Rilke ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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