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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 6: the Transcendentalists (search)
self. I will mention only the three most important which pertain to Religion. 1. The Instinctive Intuition of the Divine, the consciousness that there is a God. 2. The Instinctive Intuition of the Just and Right, a consciousness that there is a Moral Law, independent of our will, which we ought to keep. 3. The Instinctive Intuition of the Immortal, a consciousness that the Essential Element of man, the principle of Individuality, never dies. This passage dates from 1859, and readers of Bergson may like to compare it with the contemporary Frenchman's saying: The analytical faculties can give us no realities. Let us next hear Emerson himself, first in an early letter to his brother Edward: Do you draw the distinction of Milton, Coleridge, and the Germans between Reason and Understanding? I think it a philosophy itself, and, like all truth, very practical. Reason is the highest faculty of the soul, what we mean often by the soul itself: it never reasons, never proves, it simply
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
pirically supported rational alternative to the mechanical mythology. In many respects it anticipated the philosophy of Bergson. In the hands of James this tychism becomes a gospel of wonderful power in releasing men from the oppression of a fixedbe composed of a single stuff called pure experience. This sounds monistic enough, and James's adherence to the view of Bergson re-enforces this impression Nevertheless, James insisted that the world as experienced does not possess the degree of unrely logical argumentation led James, towards the end of his life, to the acceptance of the extreme anti-logical view of Bergson that our logical and mathematical ideas are inherently incapable of revealing the real and changing world. James's inndoubtedly the fact that in an age of waning faith in human reason—witness the rapid spread of the romantic mysticism of Bergson—he has rallied those who still believe in the cause of liberalism based on faith in the value of intellectual enlightenm
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
176, 535, 546 Bell, Robert, 535 Bell, William A., 157 Bellamy, Edward, 82, 86, 360 Bellman, 333 Bells, the, 35 Ben-Hur, 74, 75, 86 Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone. See Riley, J. W. Benn, 264 n. Bennett, Arnold, 567 Bennett, J. G., 322, 328 Benrimo, J. H., 290, 292 Benson, Frank, 291 Bent, George, 148 Bent, Col. William, 148 Bentham, 233 Bentley, 475, 487 Benton, Thomas Hart, 139, 140, 146 155, 165, 337 Beranger, 595, 596 Berenson, Bernard, 490 Bergson, 244, 251, 253, 257 Berichte üiber eine Reise nach den Westlichen Staaten Nordamerikas, 578 Berkeley, Sir, William, 385 Berlin, Irving, 289 Berlin (University), 462, 465, 467, 484 Bernard of Clairvaux, 500 Bernhardt, Sarah, 280 Bernstein, Henri, 282 Berrien, 337 Bertha, the sewing machine girl, 287 Bertsch, H., 582 Betsy Brown, 510 Betsy from Pike, 515 Between the dark and the daylight, 84 Beyond the Rockies, 165 Bible, the, 6, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207, 2