Nature

ISBN-13: 9781512112894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 44 str.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opis

OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?