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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... possible to him in Concord and are possible any- where at any time to anybody . If I may parody John Stuart Mill , Emerson argues for a perpetual possibility of revelation ; and this perpetual possibility is evidence of what is godlike ...
... possible to him in Concord and are possible any- where at any time to anybody . If I may parody John Stuart Mill , Emerson argues for a perpetual possibility of revelation ; and this perpetual possibility is evidence of what is godlike ...
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... possible to an Australian bushman , a Digger Indian , an African pygmy , and a cultivated Unitarian clergyman ? And will they each intuit the same vision of the absolute ? It will not quite do to say that the expression of idealistic ...
... possible to an Australian bushman , a Digger Indian , an African pygmy , and a cultivated Unitarian clergyman ? And will they each intuit the same vision of the absolute ? It will not quite do to say that the expression of idealistic ...
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... possible to turn my entire analysis upside down- to say that in condemning the Christian God , the Bible , Chris- tian history , the churches , and the Christian world , irascible , passionate , short - tempered , and egotistical as he ...
... possible to turn my entire analysis upside down- to say that in condemning the Christian God , the Bible , Chris- tian history , the churches , and the Christian world , irascible , passionate , short - tempered , and egotistical as he ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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