A Documentary History of American Thought and SocietyCharles Robert Crowe Allyn and Bacon, 1965 - 412 pages |
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... nature Transcendental optimism would not have been feasible . However , the wicked as well as the virtuous seek self expression , and Emerson was reminded that basic impulses may ... Nature 133 NATURE Hamatreya (1847): Ralph Waldo Emerson.
... nature Transcendental optimism would not have been feasible . However , the wicked as well as the virtuous seek self expression , and Emerson was reminded that basic impulses may ... Nature 133 NATURE Hamatreya (1847): Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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... nature . This , of course , is a benefit which is temporary and mediate , not ultimate , like its service to the soul . Yet although low , it is perfect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men apprehend . . . . The ...
... nature . This , of course , is a benefit which is temporary and mediate , not ultimate , like its service to the soul . Yet although low , it is perfect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men apprehend . . . . The ...
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... natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact . Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind , and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture . An enraged man ...
... natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact . Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind , and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture . An enraged man ...
Contents
PURITANISM AND THE ORIGINS | 1 |
PURITANISM AND POLITICS | 10 |
THE ARTS THE SCIENCES AND PURITANISM | 20 |
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American Anarchism AUTHORS beauty believe called Catholic century Charles Peirce Christian churches civilization common conception Constitution Cotton Mather culture democracy democratic doctrine earth economic Emerson England equal established evil existence experience fact faith force freedom George Ripley Henry Henry Thoreau Herman Melville human ican ideas immigrant Indians individual industrial institutions intellectual Jacksonian James James Fenimore Cooper Jefferson John John Dewey labor land legislation liberty living major mankind means ment mind modern moral nature Negro never party philosophy poet political principle progress Protestant Puritan race Ralph Waldo Emerson reason reform religion religious Republican Revolution Romantic SELECTIONS sense slave slavery social society soul South Southern spirit struggle Theodore Parker things Thomas Jefferson Thoreau thought tion Transcendentalists truth Union Unitarian United universal Utopian virtue wealth William William Ellery Channing wished writers