A Documentary History of American Thought and SocietyCharles Robert Crowe Allyn and Bacon, 1965 - 412 pages |
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... truth is immutable and is universal . . . ... You cannot discover a tribe of men , but you also find the charities of life and the proofs of spiritual existence . Behold the ignorant Algonquin deposit a bow and quiver by the side of the ...
... truth is immutable and is universal . . . ... You cannot discover a tribe of men , but you also find the charities of life and the proofs of spiritual existence . Behold the ignorant Algonquin deposit a bow and quiver by the side of the ...
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... truth at its work in particular cases , and generalizes . Truth , for him , becomes a class - name for all sorts of definite working - values in experience . For the rationalist it remains a pure abstraction , to the bare name of which ...
... truth at its work in particular cases , and generalizes . Truth , for him , becomes a class - name for all sorts of definite working - values in experience . For the rationalist it remains a pure abstraction , to the bare name of which ...
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... truth here brings about that special truth's existence ; and so it is in innumer- able cases of other sorts . In truths dependent on our personal action , then , faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable ...
... truth here brings about that special truth's existence ; and so it is in innumer- able cases of other sorts . In truths dependent on our personal action , then , faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable ...
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