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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... moral sense , but Twain's most straightforward statement about this degrading quality appears in a document posthumously published in Let- ters from the Earth , entitled " The Lowest Animal . " Here are some statements from it : One is ...
... moral sense , but Twain's most straightforward statement about this degrading quality appears in a document posthumously published in Let- ters from the Earth , entitled " The Lowest Animal . " Here are some statements from it : One is ...
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... moral sense fit into the machine ? In all Twain's discussions of the moral sense he seems to assume that the moral sense enables man to know the good , yet , knowing the good , man invariably chooses evil . This choice must therefore be ...
... moral sense fit into the machine ? In all Twain's discussions of the moral sense he seems to assume that the moral sense enables man to know the good , yet , knowing the good , man invariably chooses evil . This choice must therefore be ...
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... moral principles of the world are the outcome of the experi- ence of the world . And he concludes with this striking state- ment : If I break these moral laws I cannot see how I injure God by it , for He is beyond the reach of injury ...
... moral principles of the world are the outcome of the experi- ence of the world . And he concludes with this striking state- ment : If I break these moral laws I cannot see how I injure God by it , for He is beyond the reach of injury ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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