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Show Introductio UR age is retrospective & I builds the sepulchres of th fathers. It writes biographies, histories, an criticism. The foregoing generations behel God an nature face to face; we, throug their eyes. Why should not we also enjo an original relation to the universe? Wh should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insigh an no of tradition, and religion by revelation to us, and not th history of theirs? Embosomed for a seaso in nature, whose floods of life stream aroun and through us, and invite us by the pow ers they supply, to action proportioned t nature, why should we grope among th dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its fade wardrobes? & The sun shines to-day also There is more wool and flax in the fields There are new lands, new men, and ne 7 Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. Al rights reserved |