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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... mysterious and secret forces ? To something phenomenal and concrete , or to something as invisible and immaterial as the mysterious power of gravitation or the equally mysterious prin- ciple that we cannot experience the world except ...
... mysterious and secret forces ? To something phenomenal and concrete , or to something as invisible and immaterial as the mysterious power of gravitation or the equally mysterious prin- ciple that we cannot experience the world except ...
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... Mysterious Stranger and Letters from the Earth . Of course there is also What Is Man ?, a book that gets its title from the Psalms : " What is man , that thou re- gardest him , or the son of man , that thou visitest him ? " Twain's ...
... Mysterious Stranger and Letters from the Earth . Of course there is also What Is Man ?, a book that gets its title from the Psalms : " What is man , that thou re- gardest him , or the son of man , that thou visitest him ? " Twain's ...
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... Mysterious Stranger , the universe is a dream , they are dreams and God Himself is a dream . The point would be unimportant except that , after the manner of Newton and his commentators , Twain makes his deity give matter an initial ...
... Mysterious Stranger , the universe is a dream , they are dreams and God Himself is a dream . The point would be unimportant except that , after the manner of Newton and his commentators , Twain makes his deity give matter an initial ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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