A Documentary History of American Thought and SocietyCharles Robert Crowe Allyn and Bacon, 1965 - 412 pages |
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Page 137
... Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the Father . . . In like manner , the memorable words of history and the proverbs of nations consist usually ...
... Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the Father . . . In like manner , the memorable words of history and the proverbs of nations consist usually ...
Page 138
... SPIRIT The aspect of Nature is devout . Like the figure of Jesus , she stands with bended head , and hands folded upon the breast . The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship . Of that ineffable essence which we ...
... SPIRIT The aspect of Nature is devout . Like the figure of Jesus , she stands with bended head , and hands folded upon the breast . The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship . Of that ineffable essence which we ...
Page 139
... Spirit alters , moulds , makes it . The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit it is fluid , it is volatile , it is obedient . Every spirit builds itself a house , and beyond its house a world , and ...
... Spirit alters , moulds , makes it . The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit it is fluid , it is volatile , it is obedient . Every spirit builds itself a house , and beyond its house a world , and ...
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